French ship Aquilon (1789)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Aquilon (1789), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
French Navy Ensign France
NameAquilon
NamesakeAquilo
BuilderRochefort
Laid downSeptember 1787
Launched8 June 1789
AcquiredJune 1790
Captured2 August 1798
Great Britain
NameAboukir
Acquired2 August 1798
FateBroken up in Plymouth in 1802
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

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

She served off Italy in Vice-Admiral Brueys' squadron under Captain Antoine-René Thévenard, and took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she fought HMS Vanguard, HMS Minotaur and HMS Theseus. She was captured and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Aboukir.[2]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Benyon, P. (2011). "HMS Aboukir". Naval Database. Retrieved 30 March 2013.