French ship Courageux (1806)

Courageux was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of a two-ship sub-type of the Téméraire class that also comprised Marengo.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Courageux (1806), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Courageux
Namesake:	Courageous
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	2 November 1801
Launched:	3 February 1806
In service:	8 April 1806
Out of service:	16 March 1831
General characteristics
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 m^2 (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

She was started as Alcide, and renamed in 1802. She was commissioned on 8 April 1806 under Amable Troude. On 16 February 1809, she left Lorient as flagship of a squadron also comprising Polonais and Hautpoult.

Fate

She was broken up in 1831.

Sources and 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. 131. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.