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Ship of the line of the French Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Borée (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
   France | |
| Name | Borée |
| Namesake | Boreas |
| Builder | Lorient[1] |
| Laid down | January 1783[1] |
| Launched | 17 November 1785[1] |
| Commissioned | August 1787[1] |
| Decommissioned | 1803 |
| Fate | Broken up 1803 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
|
| 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 |
|
| Armour | Timber |
In 1790, she joined the Brest squadron. Between May 1792 and January 1793, under Captain de Grimouard, she escorted a convoy from Saint Domingue to Rochefort, before being decommissioned.
On 12 April 1794, she was ordered razeed into a 50-gun frigate and renamed Ça Ira. Two months later, she was again renamed to Agricola. Recommissioned on 24 June, she served for two years before being hulked in Rochefort and used as a hospital.
She was eventually broken up in 1803
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