French_ship_Héros_(1795)

French ship <i>Héros</i> (1801)

French ship Héros (1801)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

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

Héros was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Rochefort from 1795 to 1801 by engineer Roland. She was one of the numerous Téméraire class ships designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

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Career

She took part in the French occupation of Santo Domingo, notably ferrying Toussaint Louverture to France after his arrest.[2][3]

She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) under Commander Poulain, and was one of the five French ships to survive the battle, although Poulain was killed at 13:15 and replaced by Lieutenant Conor.[4][5] She took part in the counter-attack led by Julien Cosmao, and returned to Cádiz.[6]

In the aftermath of the battle (28 October 1805), Jean Boniface Textoris, Chief Medical Officer of the French squadron, switched from the Bucentaur to the Héros to stay there until 21 April 1806 before passing on the hospital transport Achille.[note 1][7]

Héros stayed in Cádiz until she was captured by the Spanish in 1808. Renamed Heroe, she was broken up at Ferrol in 1845.[6]

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Light parliamentary ship chartered in Cadiz to take the wounded of the Admiral Rosily naval army to Toulon

Citations

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Toussaint Louverture, un héros ambigu, histoire.presse.fr
  3. [3]
    "Le véritable visage de Toussaint Louverture". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. [4]
    Fond Marine, p.331
  5. [5]
    Troude, p.395
  6. [6]
    Roche. p.243
  7. [7]
    "Notice no. LH//2582/41". Base Léonore (in French).

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