Name Anversois Laid down May 1803 Construction started May 1803 Weight 2,966 tons | Builder Antwerp Decommissioned 1815 Launched 7 June 1807 | |
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Class and type Téméraire-class ship of the line Displacement 2,966 tonnes
5,260 tonnes fully loaded | ||
Anversois was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804, Anversois 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.
In 1807, she crossed from Antwerp to Vlissingen for a refit. In 1814, she took part in the defence of the city, attacking the forts Frederick Henry on 21 March and Lacroix the next day.
At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Éole, returned to her original name during the Hundred Days, and Éole back again in 1815. In 1818, she was found to be in such poor state that she could not be used even as a hulk, and was broken up.
References
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