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French ship Nestor (1810)

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Name
  
Decommissioned
  
1849

Launched
  
21 May 1810

Laid down
  
February 1809

Construction started
  
February 1809

Weight
  
2,966 tons

French ship Nestor (1810)

Namesake
  
Nestor, son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos.

Builder
  
Pierre Degay and others, Brest

Nestor was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Nestor was commissioned in 1810 and manned, upon direct orders from Napoleon, by crews from the 14th Battalion of the Fleet, taken from the frigates Renommée and Clorinde.

On 2 December 1812, she accidentally collided with the corvette Diligente in the Roads of Toulon.

Decommissioned at the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, on 3 March 1822 she was ordered to be razeed to a frigate, but the order was rescinded on 22 May.

Nestor was refitted in 1823. She was reactivated in 1830 and took part in the Invasion of Algiers.

Plans were drawn up in 1846-49 to convert her to steam. The order to do so was given on 24 April 1848, and she was to receive a 450bhp engine. However, a survey determined that Nestor was too rotted. Instead, on 29 August 1849 she was converted to a prison hulk. The engine that had been acquired for her went instead to the 90-gun Charlemagne.

Nestor was broken up before 1865.

References

French ship Nestor (1810) Wikipedia


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