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French ship Pultusk (1807)

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Name
  
Pultusk

Builder
  
Antwerp

Decommissioned
  
1817

Launched
  
21 June 1807

Namesake
  
Battle of Pułtusk

Laid down
  
April 1804

Construction started
  
April 1804

Weight
  
2,966 tons

French ship Pultusk (1807)

Class and type
  
Téméraire-class ship of the line

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Audacieux, the ship 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. She took her definitive name Pultusk on 21 February 1807, though the order might not have been implemented until 14 May.

She was commissioned on 21 September 1807 and was part of the Escault squadron under Admiral Missiessy. She was ceded to Holland under the Treaty of Paris, and entered Dutch service as Waterloo.

References

French ship Pultusk (1807) Wikipedia