French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
France
Name	Quatorze Juillet
Namesake	14 July (for Bastille Day)
Ordered	23 May 1794
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	August 1794
Launched	1 February 1798
Stricken	28 April 1798
Fate	Burned April 1798
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 (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 carronades
Armour	Timber

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

During her fitting-out, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.

Citations

Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire – caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 369. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Vol. 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1798
Shipwrecks	January (unknown date): Castor, Pritzler 17 Feb: Enfant de la Patrie 25 Feb: General Eliott 4 Apr: HMS Pallas 5 Apr: Princess Amelia 12 Apr: HMS Lively April (unknown date): Quatorze Juillet 23 May: HMS Braak 23 Jun: HMS Rover 30 Jun: HMS Pique 18 Jul: HMS Aigle 24 Jul: HMS Resistance 26 Jul: HMS Garland 1 Aug: Mercure, Orient, Sérieuse 2 Aug: Artémise, Guerrier, Heureux, Timoléon 15 Aug: HMS Etrusco 13 Oct: HMS Jason 3 Dec: HMS Kingfisher 9 Dec: Henry Addington 10 Dec: HMS Colossus 14 Dec: HMS Coquille December (unknown date): Tarleton Unknown date: Parr
Other incidents	January (unknown date): Minerva 20 Apr: Woodcot 28 Jun: Lion 23 Jul: HMS Etrusco 2 Aug: Tonnant
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