French ship Danube (1808)

History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Danube (1808), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
France
Name:	Danube
Namesake:	Danube river
Builder:	Toulon^[1]
Laid down:	1806 ^[1]
Launched:	21 December 1808 ^[1]
Decommissioned:	1827 ^[1]
General characteristics ^[2]
Class and type:	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:	2,966 tonnes 5,260 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:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

Career

Danube served under Captain Henry in 1810.^[1]^[3]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.141
↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
↑ Quintin, p.175

References

Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 173-175. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 141. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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