French ship Albanais (1808)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Albanais (1808), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Albanais
Namesake: Albania
Builder: Antwerp[1]
Laid down: 1807 [1]
Launched: 2 October 1808 [1]
Decommissioned: 1814 [1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and 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

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

Career

Ordered on 31 July 1806, Albanais was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

She was commissioned on 1 October 1808.[1] In March 1808, part of her crew transferred on Tilsitt, and she had to complement her complement with Danish sailors. She served in Missiessy's Escault squadron under Pierre Lhermite.[1][3]

In 1814, according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, she was surrendered to the Dutch. [1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.29
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
    3. ↑ Levot, p. 315

    References

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