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HMS Hercule receives raking fire | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Hercule |
| Namesake | Hercules |
| Ordered | 14 August 1793 |
| Builder | Lorient shipyard |
| Laid down | June 1794 |
| Launched | 5 October 1797 |
| Completed | March 1798 |
| Captured | 21 April 1798 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Hercule |
| Acquired | 21 April 1798 |
| Fate | Broken up in December 1810 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
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| Tons burthen | 1,876 bm[2] |
| 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 |
HMS Hercule was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was previously Hercule, a Téméraire class ship of the line of the French Navy, but was captured on her maiden voyage in 1798, and spent the rest of her career as a British ship. She was broken up in 1810.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. P. 161
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