French ship Danube (1808)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Danube.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Danube (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Danube
Namesake	Danube river
Builder	Toulon[1]
Laid down	1806 [1]
Launched	21 December 1808 [1]
Decommissioned	1827 [1]
Fate	Broken up
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 m^2 (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]

The ship was struck and ordered to be broken up on 18 December 1826.[4]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.141
2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
3. Quintin, p.175
4. Winfield & Roberts p.94

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. pp. 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.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.