French ship Orient (1791)
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 The Orient explodes at the Battle of the Nile |
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| Career France | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | arsenal of Toulon |
| Laid down: | 1790 |
| Launched: | 1791 |
| Renamed: | Dauphin-Royal, renamed to Sans-Culotte in 1792, renamed to Orient in 1795. |
| Status: | scuttled at the Battle of the Nile |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2 700 tonnes |
| Length: | 65,18 metres (196,6 French feet) |
| Beam: | 16,24 metres (50 French feet) |
| Draught: | 8,12 metres (25 French feet) |
| Propulsion: | sail, 3 265 m² |
| Speed: | |
| Complement: | 1 079 men |
| Armament: | Lower deck: 32 36-pound guns middle deck: 34 24-pound guns |
L'Orient was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, by Jacques-Noël Sané.
She was constructed as the Dauphin-Royal; during the French Revolution, she was renamed to Sans-Culotte, and eventually Orient.
She was the flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile. To avoid her capture by the English, her captain, Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, scuttled her by detonating her powder magazine.
After the Battle of Trafalgar, sir Horatio Nelson was put in a coffin carved in a piece of the main mast of the Orient.
[edit] See also
- French ship Orient for other ships of the same name.
