French ship Aigle (1800)

	Drawing of the main features of Aigle
History
France
Name	Aigle
Namesake	Eagle
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	1794
Launched	6 July 1800
Captured	By the Royal Navy, 21 October 1805; By the French Navy, 22 October 1805;
Fate	Wrecked 23 October 1805
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 tonnes fully loaded;
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	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Aigle was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Rochefort in 1800.

In 1805 she sailed to the West Indies with Algésiras where they joined a French fleet under Vice-Admiral Villeneuve.

In October 1805, Aigle took part in the Battle of Trafalgar. She was captured during the battle by a boarding party from HMS Defiance.^[2]

On the following day, her crew rose up against the British prize crew, and recaptured the ship. However, she was wrecked in the storm of 23 October 1805.^[3]

Citations

^ 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
^ Stewart, William (2014), "Durham, Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood, (1763–1845) (Britain)", Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present, McFarland, p. 114, ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7
^ Adkins, Roy (2011), Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle, Little, Brown Book Group, p. 88, ISBN 978-1-4055-1344-9

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.

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[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] Stewart, William (2014), "Durham, Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood, (1763–1845) (Britain)", Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present, McFarland, p. 114, ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7

[3] Adkins, Roy (2011), Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle, Little, Brown Book Group, p. 88, ISBN 978-1-4055-1344-9

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v t Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1805
Shipwrecks	21 Jan: HMS Doris 30 Jan: HMS Raven January (unknown date): Duke of Clarence 4 Feb: HMS Acheron, HMS Arrow 5 Feb: Earl of Abergavenny 26 Feb: HMS Redbridge February (unknown date): City of Edinburgh, HMS Seagull 9 Mar: Liberty 12 Mar: HMS Imogen 21 Mar: Francis 18 Apr: Nancy April (unknown date): Scarborough May (unknown date): Calpe 5 Jun: Duke of Clarence July (unknown date): HMCS Integrity 11 Jul: HMS Orestes, Sarah 10 Aug: HMS Pigmy August (unknown date): Minerva 12 Sep: Boddington 18 Sep: Brunswick 25 Sep: HMS Papillon 30 Sep: HMS Seaforth 3 Oct: HMS Barracouta 14 Oct: Northumberland 18 Oct: Dispatch 21 Oct: Achille, Argonauta 22 Oct: Aigle, Berwick, Fougueux, Indomptable, Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, Redoutable, San Agustín, Two Friends 23 Oct: Aeneas, Bucentaure, Intrépide, Neptuno, San Francisco de Asis 26 Oct: Monarca, Rayo 1 Nov: Britannia 3 Nov: Atalante 10 Nov: HMS Biter 13 Nov: HMS Woodlark 21 Nov: Betsey 30 Nov: HMS Pigeon
Other incidents	11 Mar: Lord Forbes April (unknown date): Estramina, HMS Lady Nelson 22 May: Asia 26 Sep: HMS Calcutta 17 Nov: Ceres, HMS Fisgard Unknown date: Hercules, Iris, Sally
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French ship Aigle (1800)

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