French ship Nestor (1810)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Nestor (1810), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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| Name | Nestor |
| Namesake | Nestor, son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos. |
| Builder | Pierre Degay and others,[2] Brest[1] |
| Laid down | February 1809 [1] |
| Launched | 21 May 1810 [1] |
| Decommissioned | 1849 [1] |
| Fate | Broken up before 1865 |
| General characteristics [3] | |
| 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 |
Nestor was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career[edit]
Nestor was commissioned in 1810 and manned, upon direct orders from Napoleon, by crews from the 14th Battalion of the Fleet, taken from the frigates Renommée and Clorinde.[1]
On 2 December 1812, she accidentally collided with the corvette Diligente in the Roads of Toulon.[1]
Decommissioned at the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, on 3 March 1822 she was ordered to be razeed to a frigate, but the order was rescinded on 22 May.[2]
Nestor was refitted in 1823. She was reactivated in 1830 and took part in the Invasion of Algiers.[1]
Plans were drawn up in 1846-49 to convert her to steam. The order to do so was given on 24 April 1848, and she was to receive a 450bhp engine. However, a survey determined that Nestor was too rotted. Instead, on 29 August 1849 she was converted to a prison hulk. The engine that had been acquired for her went instead to the 90-gun Charlemagne.
Nestor was broken up before 1865.[2]
Citations[edit]
References[edit]
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 141. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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