French ship Argonaute (1798)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Argonaute.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Argonaute (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameArgonaute
NamesakeArgonauts
Ordered10 July 1794
BuilderLorient shipyard
Laid down10 July 1794
Launched22 December 1798
CommissionedSeptember 1799
Decommissioned1805
FateExchanged with Spain, 1806
Spain
NameArgonauta
Acquired1806
FateBroken up
General characteristics [1]
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

Argonaute was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October. On the left the French Swiftsure, next to her the Spanish Bahama, then HMS Colossus firing into the French Argonaute. Painting by Richard Henry Nibbs

Under Vice-amiral Villaret de Joyeuse, she took part in the Saint-Domingue expedition in 1802. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, and managed to return to Cádiz. Unable to leave the harbour because of the British blockade and damage, she was exchanged for the Vencedor in December 1806. She was renamed Argonauta, but was never recommissioned.[2]

See also

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 4 April 2013.
  2. ^ Roche, Jean-Michel (2012). "Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom d'Argonaute". netmarine.net (in French). Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2013.

References

  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.


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