French ship Dalmate (1808)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Hector.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dalmate (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameDalmate
NamesakeDalmatia
BuilderAntwerp[1]
Laid down22 August 1806 [1]
Launched21 August 1808 [1]
Decommissioned1819 [1]
FateBroken up 1820
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

Dalmate was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ordered on 11 August 1806, Dalmate was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

She was commissioned in 1808 and served under Captain Le Jaulne.[3] She was decommissioned in 1813, and her crew transferred to Friedland.[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed Hector, changed to Dalmate during the Hundred Days, and to Hector back again after Napoléon's second abdication.[1] She later served under Captain Baron Lemarant between 15 May to 22 June 1817,[4] and Bergeret from 13 September, cruising the Caribbean and returning to Rochefort on 4 February 1818.[5]

The ship was broken up in 1820.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.139
  2. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  3. ^ Quintin, p.226
  4. ^ Quintin, p.230
  5. ^ Quintin, p.59
  6. ^ Winfield & Roberts p.96

References

  • Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 139. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.


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