French ship Pultusk (1807)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Audacieux.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Pultusk (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NamePultusk
NamesakeBattle of Pułtusk
BuilderAntwerp[1]
Laid downApril 1804 [1]
Launched20 September 1807 [1]
Decommissioned1817 [1]
FateCeded to Holland 1814, broken up 1817
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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Audacieux, the ship 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 took her definitive name as Pulstuck on 21 February 1807, though the order might not have been implemented until 14 May.[1]

Only after the Danish crew of the ship remarked about the spelling of the name, this was corrected to Pultusk, with an icy comment from the Emperor that "the French people didn't know their victories."[3]

She was commissioned on 21 September 1807 and was part of the Escault squadron under Admiral Missiessy. She was ceded to Holland under the Treaty of Paris,[1] and entered Dutch service as Waterloo being broken up in 1817.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.368
  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. ^ Lütken, O. (1885). De Danske paa Skelden 1808-1809. Copenhagen: F. H. Eibes Forlag.
  4. ^ Winfield p.95

References

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 368. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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