French ship Wattignies (1794)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Wattignies (1794), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Namesake	Battle of Wattignies (1793)
Ordered	3 July 1793
Builder	Lorient shipyard
Launched	8 October 1794
Stricken	5 September 1808
Fate	Scrapped on 21 September 1808
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 tonnes fully loaded;
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	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

The Wattignies was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

In July 1808, she was converted to a fluyt.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 475. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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