&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Donegal_RMG_PY0760.jpg) Donegal in 1840
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| History | |
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| Name | Barra |
| Namesake | |
| Builder | Toulon |
| Laid down | November 1791 |
| Launched | 23 March 1794 |
| Commissioned | February 1795 |
| Renamed |
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| Captured | by the British, 12 October 1798 |
| Fate | Captured by the British 12 October 1798 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Donegal |
| Namesake | County Donegal |
| Acquired | Captured from the French on 12 October 1798 |
| Fate | Broken up in May 1845 |
| 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 pieds) |
| Beam | 14.46 metres (47 ft 5 in) (44½ pieds) |
| Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pieds) |
| Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
HMS Donegal was launched in 1794 as Barra, a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Pégase in October 1795, and Hoche in December 1797. The British Royal Navy captured her at the Battle of Tory Island on 12 October 1798 and recommissioned her as HMS Donegal.
- ^ 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.