French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

Quatorze Juillet was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Quatorze Juillet
Namesake:	14 July (for Bastille Day)
Ordered:	23 May 1794
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	August 1794
Launched:	1 February 1798
Stricken:	28 April 1798
Fate:	Burned April 1798
General characteristics [1]
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

During her fitting-out, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.

References

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 14 April 2013.

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.