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French ship Entreprenant (1787)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Entreprenant.
Entreprenant was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
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![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Entreprenant (1787), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
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Name | Entreprenant |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | May 1786 |
Launched | 12 October 1787 |
In service | 1788 |
Out of service | 9 November 1802 |
Fate | Broken up, 1803 |
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 |
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In December 1792, she assisted the Languedoc. She was taken by the British when they captured Toulon, but was recaptured.
In 1793, she ferried prisoners suspected of anti-revolutionary sympathies from Toulon to Rochefort after Toulon was taken by the British.
She took part in the Glorious First of June and in the Croisière du Grand Hiver.