French ship Trajan (1811)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Trajan (1811), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Trajan
Namesake	Trajan.
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	September 1807
Launched	15 August 1811
Decommissioned	1827
Fate	Broken up 1829
General characteristics
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:; 6 × 8-pounder long guns; 10 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

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

Career

Commissioned in Antwerp, Trajan served in Missiessy's squadron before being stationed at Antwerp in March, along with Gaulois, for the defence of the town.^[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, she returned to Brest, where she was decommissioned. In 1822 she was found to be in need of a refit, and was struck in 1827. Trajan was eventually broken up in 1829.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roche, vol.1, p.443
^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 443. 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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[roche443-1] Roche, vol.1, p.443

[2] Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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