French ship Apollon (1788)
Apollon was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Apollon (1788), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
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| Name | Apollon |
| Namesake | Apollo, Gasparinus de Bergamo, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers |
| Builder | Rochefort |
| Laid down | April 1787 |
| Launched | 21 May 1788 |
| Commissioned | 1788 |
| Decommissioned | 1797 |
| Renamed |
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| Fate | Broken up 1798 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| 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 |
Career
In 1790, Apollon was the flagship of Charles Louis du Chilleau de La Roche, in Brest. [2]
Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue.
During the Siege of Toulon, her commanding officer, Captain Imbert, negotiated the surrender of the town with Admiral Hood aboard HMS Victory. After the siege, she ferried 1,500 anti-revolutionary prisoners to Rochefort, where most of them were executed.
She took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, and the Croisière du Grand Hiver ("Campaign of the Great Winter") in 1794–1795.
She was eventually broken up in 1798.
Citations
- 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.
- Du Chilleau (1815), p. 10.
References
- Du Chilleau, Alex (1815). Au Roi. Exposé des services du contre-amiral Mis Du Chilleau. Paris: Leblanc.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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