French ship Audacieux (1816)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Audacieux.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Audacieux (1816), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Audacieux
Builder	Schuyt, Amsterdam
Laid down	1812
Launched	October 1816
Fate	Seized on slip by Holland 1813, wrecked 16 January 1827
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

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

Career

Audacieux 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.

The Dutch seized Audacieux when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Coalitie, later renamed to Wassenaar. She was wrecked on 16 January 1827.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 56. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• 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.