![]() Fight of the Poursuivante – 28th of June 1803, by Louis-Philippe Crépin (detail)
HMS Hercule receives raking fire | |
History | |
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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 |
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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.