French ship Léopard (1787)
Appearance
![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Léopard (1787), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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Name | Léopard[1] |
Namesake | Leopard (Panthera pardus) |
Builder | Brest[1] |
Laid down | 15 November 1785[1] |
Launched | 22 June 1787[1] |
In service | July 1787[1] |
Fate | Scuttled by fire on 12 February 1793[1] |
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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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Léopard was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]On 30 October 1788, Léopard departed Toulon for a cruise in the Caribbean, under Captain de la Galissoninère.[1][3]
On 15 September 1790, a fight between sailors from Léopard and Patriote caused a mutiny; the entire crew of Léopard was expelled from the Navy by a decree of the National Constituent Assembly.[1]
From 1792, Léopard took part in the Expédition de Sardaigne under Captain Bourdon-Gramont, capturing Carloforte on 8 January 1793. On 17 February, Léopard ran aground in a storm off Cagliari; after two days trying to refloat her, the crew abandoned the ship and set her on fire after offloading the guns and matériel.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 278. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Les Barrin de la Galissoninère, Pierre Roucou, Le Pallet, Patrie d'Abélard, 2e édition 2003, Association culturelle Pierre Abélard, édition avril 2006.