French ship Tourville (1788)

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

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Tourville.
Tourville (left) raking HMS Defence (centre) at the Battle of Prairial, while Mucius Scævola (right) duels with her on her port side. Painting by Nicholas Pocock
History
France
Name: Tourville
Namesake: Anne Hilarion de Tourville
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: 1 June 1787
Launched: 16 September 1788
Commissioned: July 1790
Decommissioned: 26 October 1833
Fate: broken up in Brest in 1841
General characteristics
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 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

Career

In 1790, she was under Armand de Saint-Félix.[1]

In August 1793, she was damaged by a tempest, which also killed her captain, and had to return to Brest. In September, a mutiny broke out aboard. She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, to the Expédition d'Irlande, and to the Cruise of Bruix. She was eventually broken up in Brest in 1841.

Sources and references

Notes

    References

    1. Levot, p.468—469

    Bibliography

    • Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.

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