Name Thémistocle Ordered 19 October 1787 Laid down 1 September 1789 Construction started 1 September 1789 Weight 2,966 tons | Builder Lorient Decommissioned September 1793 Launched 12 September 1790 | |
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Thémistocle was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Built in Lorient, Thémistocle was transferred to the Mediterranean soon after her commissioning to reinforce the squadron under Admiral Truguet. Seized by the British at the surrendering of Toulon by a Royalist cabale, she was used as a prison hulk during the Siege of Toulon. At the fall of the city, Captain Sidney Smith had her scuttled by fire, along with Héros.
The wreck was refloated in 1804 to be broken up.
References
French ship Thémistocle (1791) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA