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French ship Téméraire (1782)

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Name
  
Téméraire

Laid down
  
May 1782

Fate
  
Broken up in 1803

Launched
  
17 December 1782

Weight
  
1,966 tons

Builder
  
Brest

Namesake
  
"Temerarious"

Commissioned
  
July 1783

Construction started
  
May 1782

Length
  
56 m

Beam
  
15 m

French ship Téméraire (1782)

Class and type
  
Téméraire-class ship of the line

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

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, battling HMS Russell.

She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver of winter 1794-1795, but sustained damage when a leak opened in her hull in the night of the 30 to 31 December, and she had to return to Saint Malo. From 1798, she was in a state of disrepair and needed to be refitted or demolished. She was eventually condemned in 1802 and broken up in 1803.

References

French ship Téméraire (1782) Wikipedia