French ship Jean Bart (1820)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jean Bart (1820), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.

History
France
Name| Jean Bart
Namesake| Jean Bart
Builder| Lorient[1]
Laid down| 1811[1]
Launched| 25 August 1820[1]
Decommissioned| 26 October 1833[1]
Fate| Broken up 1833
General characteristics [2]
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

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

## Career

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Ordered in 1811, Jean Bart was not completed before 1820, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration. Commissioned under Captain Menouvrier-Defresne, she cruised off Brazil in before returning to Brest. In 1823, she captured the Spanish merchantman Nueva Veloce Mariana before patrolling the Caribbean.[1]

She cruised off South America again from 1828 to 1829 before being hulked in 1830. She was eventually scrapped in 1833.[1]

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.265
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.

## References

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* Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 265\. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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