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French ship Borée (1785)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Borée (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameBorée
NamesakeBoreas
BuilderLorient[1]
Laid downJanuary 1783[1]
Launched17 November 1785[1]
CommissionedAugust 1787[1]
Decommissioned1803
FateBroken up 1803
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

Career edit

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

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c d Roche, vol.1, p.79
  2. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). . dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References edit

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 198. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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