&sq=&lang=&file=File:Vaisseau-Droits-de-lHomme.jpg) Fight of the Droits de l'Homme, by Léopold Le Guen
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| History | |
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| Name | Droits de l'Homme |
| Namesake | La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen |
| Ordered | 16 February 1793 |
| Builder | Port-Liberté (now Lorient) Naval Dockyard |
| Laid down | May 1793 |
| Launched | 29 May 1794 |
| Completed | July 1794 |
| Fate | Wrecked 14 January 1797 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| 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) (45 pied 10 pouces) |
| Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
| Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
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| Armour | Timber |
Droits de l'Homme (French for 'Rights of Man'; [dʁwa də l‿ɔm]) was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. Launched in 1794, the ship saw service in the Atlantic against the British Royal Navy.
She was part of the fleet that sailed in December 1796 on the disastrous Expédition d'Irlande. After unsuccessful attempts to land troops on Ireland, the Droits de l'Homme headed back to her home port of Brest with the soldiers still on board. Two British frigates were waiting to intercept stragglers from the fleet, and engaged Droits de l'Homme in the action of 13 January 1797. Heavily damaged by the British ships and unable to manoeuvre in rough seas, the ship struck a sandbar and was wrecked. Hundreds of people died in the disaster.
- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III: classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.