French ship Thésée (1790)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thésée (1790), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Thésée
Namesake	Theseus
Ordered	19 October 1787
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	March 1788
Launched	14 April 1790
In service	August 1790
Out of service	7 December 1804
Renamed	Révolution on 7 January 1793 Finistère on 5 February 1803
Fate	Broken up in 1816
General characteristics
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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder obusiers
Armour	Timber

Thésée was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley.

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