For other ships of the same name, see French ship Brillant.
| French ship Brillant (1815) | |
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 Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of French ship Brillant (1815), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. | |
| Career (France) |  |
| Name: | Brillant |
| Builder: | Genoa[1] |
| Laid down: | 1813 [1] |
| Launched: | 1814 [1] |
| Captured: | 18 April 1814 [1] |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | Genoa [1] |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class & type: | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement: |
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| 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 |
Brillant was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. The British captured her while still on keel, ready for launch, at the fall of the city in 1814. She was completed for the Royal Navy and served as HMS Genoa until 1838.[3]
Career[]
Genoa was present at the Battle of Navarino.[3]
Notes, citations, and references[]
Notes[]
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Roche, vol.1, p.87
- ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V4.html. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
References[]
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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