 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Albanais (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Albanais |
| Namesake | Albania |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | 1807 [1] |
| Launched | 2 October 1808 [1] |
| Fate | Ceded to Holland 1814, broken up 1817 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| 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 |
Albanais was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered on 31 July 1806, Albanais was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.
She was commissioned on 1 October 1808.[1] In March 1808, part of her crew transferred on Tilsitt, and she had to complement her complement with Danish sailors. She served in Missiessy's Escault squadron under Pierre Lhermite.[1][3]
In 1814, according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, she was surrendered to the Dutch and renamed Batavier. She was broken up in 1817.[1][4]
Citations
References
- Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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