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French ship Tourville (1788)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Tourville.
Tourville was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
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![]() Tourville (left) raking HMS Defence (centre) at the Battle of Prairial, while Mucius Scævola (right) duels with her on her port side. Painting by Nicholas Pocock | |
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Name | Tourville |
Namesake | Anne Hilarion de Tourville |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 1 June 1787 |
Launched | 16 September 1788 |
Commissioned | July 1790 |
Decommissioned | 26 October 1833 |
Fate | Broken up in Brest in 1841 |
General characteristics | |
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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