![]() Scale model of
Achille, sister ship of French ship Léopard (1787), on display at the
Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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Name | Léopard [1] |
Namesake | Leopard (Panthera pardus) |
Builder | Brest [1] |
Laid down | 15 November 1785 [1] |
Launched | 22 June 1787 [1] |
In service | July 1787 [1] |
Fate | Scuttled by fire on 12 February 1793 [1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and 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 |
Léopard was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
On 30 October 1788, Léopard departed Toulon for a cruise in the Caribbean, under Captain de la Galissoninère. [1] [3]
On 15 September 1790, a fight between sailors from Léopard and Patriote caused a mutiny; the entire crew of Léopard was expelled from the Navy by a decree of the National Constituent Assembly. [1]
From 1792, Léopard took part in the Expédition de Sardaigne under Captain Bourdon-Gramont, capturing Carloforte on 8 January 1793. On 17 February, Léopard ran aground in a storm off Cagliari; after two days trying to refloat her, the crew abandoned the ship and set her on fire after offloading the guns and matériel.