French ship Cassard (1795)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Cassard and French ship Brave.

Cassard was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Dix-août in 1798, in honour of the events of 10 August 1792, and subsequently Brave in 1803.

Scale model of the Brave, probably made by French sailor prisoners in Great Britain, Art Gallery of Ontario
History
France
Name	Cassard
Namesake	Jacques Cassard 10th of August Bravery
Ordered	16 February 1793
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	August 1793
Launched	2 May 1795
Renamed	Cassard in 1795 Dix-août in 1798 Brave in 1803
Captured	1806
United Kingdom
Acquired	6 February 1806
Fate	Foundered attempting to reach Britain in April 1806.
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 m (183 ft 4 in) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 m (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 m (23 ft 10 in) (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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Career

Capture of HMS Swiftsure by Indivisible and Dix-Août, 26 September 1805

On 10 February 1801 Dix-août captured the 16-gun cutter HMS Sprightly, which she scuttled. On 27 March 1801, as Dix-août sailed with the fleet of Toulon, she collided with Formidable and had to return to harbour.

On 26 September 1805 Indivisible and Dix-Août succeeded in shooting away Swiftsure's yards and masts, crippling her and so capturing her.^[2] Swiftsure had two men killed, two men mortally wounded, and another six wounded; the French lost 33 killed and wounded.^[2] See main article Action of 24 June 1801.

On 4 February 1803, her name was changed to Brave.

Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806. Brave is dismasted (third left from the far right).

She was captured by HMS Donegal on 6 February 1806 at the Battle of San Domingo. She foundered shortly thereafter on 12 April 1806 without loss of life while en route to Britain.

Citations

1. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
2. "No. 15437". The London Gazette. 19 December 1801. pp. 1505–1506.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 153. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

• Media related to Cassard (ship, 1795) at Wikimedia Commons