French ship Borée (1785)

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Achille
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Borée (1785), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
French Navy Ensign France
Name: Borée
Namesake: Boreas
Builder: Lorient[1]
Laid down: January 1783[1]
Launched: 17 November 1785[1]
Commissioned: August 1787[1]
Decommissioned: 1803
General characteristics [2]
Class & type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam: 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion: Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:
Armour: Timber

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

Career

In 1790, she joined the Brest squadron. Between May 1792 and January 1793, under Captain de Grimouard, she escorted a convoy from Saint Domingue to Rochefort, before being decommissioned.

On 12 April 1794, she was ordered razeed into a 50-gun frigate and renamed Ça Ira. Two months later, she was again renamed to Agricola. Recommissioned on 24 June, she served for two years before being hulked in Rochefort and used as a hospital.

She was eventually broken up in 1803

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
Citations
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roche, vol.1, p.79
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
References
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>