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French ship Union (1799)

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Name
  
Union

Fate
  
Sank in storm 1806

Length
  
56 m

Beam
  
15 m

Namesake
  
Union

Launched
  
1799

Weight
  
2,966 tons

Builder
  
Lorient

French ship Union (1799)

Class and type
  
Téméraire class ship of the line

Displacement
  
2966 tonnes 5260 tonnes fully loaded

Draught
  
7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)

Union was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Diomède in 1803. She was wrecked and burnt at the Battle of San Domingo.

References

French ship Union (1799) Wikipedia