French ship Magnanime (1803)
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Name | Magnanime |
Builder | Rochefort |
Laid down | June 1802 |
Launched | 18 August 1803 |
Decommissioned | 1816 |
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 |
Magnanime was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Her keel was laid in June 1802, and she was launched in Rochefort on 18 August 1803.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/HMS_Calcutta_1806.jpg/220px-HMS_Calcutta_1806.jpg)
Magnanime aided by Armide captures HMS Calcutta on 26 September 1805
She took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Pierre-Francois Violette. On 26 September 1805, flanked by Armide, she attacked and captured HMS Calcutta.
She was decommissioned in 1816.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ 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 4 April 2013.
- ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DkgGVTOr2EsC&pg=PA561&lpg=PA561&dq
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.[page needed][self-published source?]
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