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French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

Quatorze Juillet was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the 1790s. Completed in 1798, she played a minor role in the French Revolutionary Wars.

Description

Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Téméraire-class ships had an overall length of and a length at the waterline of . They had a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.

The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of sixteen 8-pounder long guns. Beginning with the ships completed after 1787, the armament of the Téméraires began to change with the addition of four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck (). Some ships had instead twenty 8-pounders.

Construction and career

Quatorze Juillet was ordered on 23 May 1794, laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient in August. She was named on 19 January 1795 to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. The ship was launched on 1 February 1798 and completed two days later. While fitting out Quatorze Juillet caught fire and was destroyed on 29 April.

Citations

References

  • Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing.