Name Audacieux Laid down 1811 Construction started 1811 Weight 2,966 tons | Builder Schuyt, Amsterdam Decommissioned 14 November Launched 1813 | |
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Displacement 2,966 tonnes5,260 tonnes fully loaded |
Audacieux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Audacieux 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.
The Dutch seized Audacieux when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Colite, later renamed to Wassenaar. She was decommissioned in 1827.
References
French ship Audacieux (1816) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA