''Aigle'' was a
74-gun
The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently de ...
French
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...
built at
Rochefort in 1800.
In 1805 she sailed to the West Indies with where they joined a French fleet under Vice-Admiral
Villeneuve.
In October 1805, ''Aigle'' took part in the
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French Navy, French and Spanish Navy, Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Na ...
. She was captured during the battle by a boarding party from
HMS ''Defiance''.
On the following day, her crew rose up against the British prize crew, and recaptured the ship. However, she was wrecked in the storm of 23 October 1805.
See also
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List of ships captured in the 19th century
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List of ships of the line of France
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (''Marine Royale'' before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as ''vais ...
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Ships of the line of the French Navy
Téméraire-class ships of the line
1800 ships
Captured ships
Napoleonic-era ships
Ships built in France
Maritime incidents in 1805
Shipwrecks of Spain
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