''Téméraire'' 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 ...
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 ...
of the
French Navy
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, ordered in December 1747 to a design by
François Coulomb, and built at Toulon by his cousin, the constructor Pierre-Blaise Coulomb; she was launched on 24 December 1749.
Her 74 guns comprised:
28 × 36-pounders on the lower deck
30 × 18-pounders on the upper deck
10 × 8-pounders on the quarterdeck
6 × 8-pounders on the forecastle.
under
Admiral Boscawen
Admiral of the Blue Edward Boscawen, PC (19 August 171110 January 1761) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He is known principally for his various naval commands during the 18th century and the engagements that he won, including the sie ...
captured ''Téméraire'' at the
Battle of Lagos
The Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over two days in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. They fought south west of the Gulf of Cádiz on ...
on 18 August 1759. She was thus taken into the
Royal Navy
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and recommissioned as the
Third Rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
Rating
When the rating system was f ...
HMS ''Temeraire''.
By 1780 she was used as a floating battery used to protect the harbour at
Plymouth
Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...
. She was sold in 1783.
[Famous Fighters of the Fleet. Edward Fraser, 1904, p.217]
Fate
''Temeraire'' was sold out of the navy in 1784.
See also
*
List of ships captured in the 18th century
Notes
Citations
References
*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
*Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S., ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing, 2017) .
Temeraire (1749)
Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1749 ships
Captured ships
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