French ship Patriote (1785)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Patriote.
Watercolour portrait of Patriote, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
French Navy Ensign France
NamePatriote
NamesakePatriot
Ordered28 January 1786
BuilderBrest
Laid downOctober 1784
Launched3 October 1785
CommissionedApril 1786
DecommissionedMay 1820
FateBroken up 1832-33
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 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

Patriote was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was one of the French ships which had their hull doubled with copper.

Career

In 1786, Patriote was under Captain Renaud d'Aleins, flag captain to Chef d'Escadre Albert de Rions, with Major d'escadre Buor de La Charoulière also aboard. She was the flagship of the Escadre d'évolution that organised a naval review and a simulated naval battle for the visit of Louis XVI to Cherbourg Naval Base.[2]

From 1790 to 1791, Patriote was under Huon de Kermadec, part of the squadron under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.[3]

In September 1793, during the Siege of Toulon, she was taken by the British, who removed her armament and embarked the French sailors sympathetic to the Republic. Admiral Hood having agreed to transport them to a safe port, she then ferried them to Brest, where she arrived on 16 October.[4]

In 1794 she took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, in the Croisière du Grand Hiver winter campaign in 1794 and 1795, and in the Expédition d'Irlande in December 1796. In 1806 she was damaged in a hurricane in the Caribbean and went to Chesapeake Bay for shelter where she was blockaded by the British along with Éole and laid off Annapolis for repairs until returning to France. From 1821, she was used as a hulk.

Citations

  1. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. ^ Lacour-Gayet (1905), p. 589.
  3. ^ Duyker, Edward (2005). "Huon De Kermadec, Jean-Michel (1748–1793)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  4. ^ Quintin, p.84

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