![]() Scale model of
Achille, sister ship of French ship Couronne (1813), on display at the
Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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Name | Couronne |
Namesake | Crown |
Builder | Schuyt, Amsterdam [2] |
Laid down | 1811 [2] |
Launched | 26 October 1813 [1] |
Fate | Seized by Netherlands December 1813 [1] |
General characteristics [3] | |
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 |
Couronne was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Couronne 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.
The Dutch seized Couronne when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Willem de Eerste. She was sold for breaking up in 1829. [1]
![]() Scale model of
Achille, sister ship of French ship Couronne (1813), on display at the
Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | Couronne |
Namesake | Crown |
Builder | Schuyt, Amsterdam [2] |
Laid down | 1811 [2] |
Launched | 26 October 1813 [1] |
Fate | Seized by Netherlands December 1813 [1] |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
|
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 |
Couronne was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Couronne 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.
The Dutch seized Couronne when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Willem de Eerste. She was sold for breaking up in 1829. [1]