Name Couronne Builder Schuyt, Amsterdam Decommissioned 14 November Launched 1813 | Namesake Crown Laid down 1811 Construction started 1811 Weight 2,966 tons | |
 | ||
Class and type | ||
Couronne was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Couronne 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 Couronne when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Prins Willem de Eerste. She was decommissioned in 1829.
References
French ship Couronne (1813) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA