French_ship_Aigle_(1800)

French ship <i>Aigle</i> (1800)

French ship Aigle (1800)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Aigle.

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

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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]

See also

Citations

  1. [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. [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. [3]
    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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