French ship Dalmate (1808)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dalmate (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Dalmate
Namesake	Dalmatia
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	22 August 1806
Launched	21 August 1808
Decommissioned	1819
Fate	Broken up 1820
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 m2 (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

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

Career[edit]

Ordered on 11 August 1806, Dalmate was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

She was commissioned in 1808 and served under Captain Le Jaulne.^[3] She was decommissioned in 1813, and her crew transferred to Friedland.^[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed Hector, changed to Dalmate during the Hundred Days, and to Hector back again after Napoléon's second abdication.^[1] She later served under Captain Baron Lemarant between 15 May to 22 June 1817,^[4] and Bergeret from 13 September, cruising the Caribbean and returning to Rochefort on 4 February 1818.^[5]

The ship was broken up in 1820.^[6]

Citations[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.139
^ 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.
^ Quintin, p.226
^ Quintin, p.230
^ Quintin, p.59
^ Winfield & Roberts p.96

References[edit]

Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. 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. 139. 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.

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[roche139-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.139

[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.

[Quintin226-3] Quintin, p.226

[Quintin230-4] Quintin, p.230

[Quintin59-5] Quintin, p.59

[6] Winfield & Roberts p.96

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