French ship Ajax (1806)
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Ajax (1806), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. | |
History | |
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France | |
Name: | Ajax |
Namesake: | Ajax |
Builder: | Lorient[1] |
Laid down: | 23 November 1804 [1] |
Launched: | 17 June 1806 [1] |
Decommissioned: | 1815 [1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type: | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement: |
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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: |
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Armour: | Timber |
Ajax was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ajax was built at Rochefort along the lines of the Téméraire type designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, but with modifications brought by Engineers Rigault and Filhol; she is sometimes listed as a "82-gun ship". [1]
Commissioned under Captain Jean-Nicolas Petit, she replaced Jemmapes in Zacharie Allemand's squadron. In 1808, she transferred to Toulon, where she became an artillery hulk in 1815. [1]
Renamed Patiente in 1816, she became a prison hulk in 1818. [1]
Notes, citations, and references
- Notes
- Citations
- References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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