French ship Ferme (1785)
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Ferme was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Offered to the Crown by the Ferme générale as a Don des vaisseaux, she was renamed Phocion at the Revolution . Her officers surrendered her to Spain in 1793 out of Royalist political convictions and she served in the Spanish Navy until 1818.
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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Ferme (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
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Name | Ferme |
Namesake | Ferme générale |
Builder | Brest[1] |
Laid down | December 1784[1] |
Launched | 16 September 1785[1] |
Commissioned | 1786[1] |
Renamed | Phocion 1792 |
Fate | Mutineers delivered to Spain |
Spanish Empire | |
Acquired | 1794[1] |
Fate | Broken up in La Guaria in 1808[1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
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) |
Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
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