Name Duguesclin Builder Antwerp Decommissioned 1817 Launched 1807 | Namesake Bertrand du Guesclin Laid down June 1804 Construction started June 1804 Weight 2,966 tons | |
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Class and type Téméraire-class ship of the line | ||
Duguesclin was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804, Duguesclin 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.
References
French ship Duguesclin (1807) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA