Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jemmapes (1794), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Jemmapes[1]
Namesake	Battle of Jemappes[1]
Ordered	19 October 1787[1]
Builder	Rochefort, Charente-Maritime[1]
Laid down	August 1790[1]
Launched	22 January 1794[1]
Commissioned	March 1794[1]
Decommissioned	May 1820[1]
Fate	Broken up 1830
General characteristics [2]
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 m2 (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

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

Laid down as Alexandre, she was renamed Jemmapes on 7 January 1793 in honour of the Battle of Jemappes. She took part in the Atlantic campaign of May 1794 and ultimately in the Glorious First of June. She was attacked and totally dismasted by HMS Queen, with the loss of 60, including her captain, and 55 wounded.

She took part in the expedition to Saint-Domingue under Julien Cosmao.^[1]

She was part of Zacharie Allemand's "invisible squadron", under Captain Jean-Nicolas Petit. She fought at the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809.^[1]

She was used as a hulk in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime from 1830, and was later broken up.^[1]

Citations

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 266. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.