Name Cassard Builder Lorient Construction started August 1793 Length 56 m Beam 15 m | Ordered 16 February 1793 Laid down August 1793 Launched 1795 Weight 2,966 tons | |
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Namesake Jacques Cassard
10th of August
Bravery Renamed Cassard in 1795
Dix-août in 1798
Brave in 1803 | ||
Cassard was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Dix-août in 1798, in honour of the events of 10 August 1792, and subsequently Brave in 1803.
Career
On 10 February 1801 Dix-août captured the 16-gun cutter HMS Sprightly, which she scuttled.
On the 27 March 1801, as Dix-août sailed with the fleet of Toulon, she collided with the Formidable and had to return to harbour.
On 4 February 1803, her name was changed to Brave.
She was captured by the HMS Donegal on 6 February 1806 at the Battle of San Domingo. She foundered shortly thereafter on 12 April (without loss of life) while en route to Britain.
References
French ship Cassard (1795) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA