Builder Lorient Decommissioned 26 October 1833 Launched 25 August 1820 | Namesake Jean Bart Laid down 1811 Construction started 1811 Weight 2,966 tons | |
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Jean Bart was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered in 1811, Jean Bart was not completed before 1820, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration. Commissioned under Captain Menouvrier-Defresne, she cruised off Brazil in before returning to Brest. In 1823, she captured the Spanish merchantman Nueva Veloce Mariana before patrolling the Caribbean.
She cruised off South America again from 1828 to 1829 before being hulked in 1830. She was eventually scrapped in 1833.
References
French ship Jean Bart (1820) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA