Name Éole Laid down 1 June 1787 Construction started 1 June 1787 Length 56 m Beam 15 m | Namesake Aeolus Commissioned August 1790 Launched 15 November 1789 Weight 1,966 tons Builder Lorient | |
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Fate Broken up in Baltimore in 1816 Class and type | ||
Éole was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue. She took part in the Glorious First of June, where she and Trajan dismasted HMS Bellerophon.
She later took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland.
On 19 August 1806, during the Atlantic campaign of 1806, she was dismasted by a tempest off Martinique, and had to be taken in tow by American ships to Annapolis. She was eventually condemned in 1811, and broken up in 1816.
Several of her 36-pounder long guns were loaned to Fort McHenry in 1813 and used in the defence of Baltimore in September 1814.
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