Aigle (1800)

Aigle

The main features of the Aigle

Ship data flag  France Ship type Ship of the line class ´Téméraire class Shipyard Arsenal Rochefort Keel laying 1794 Commissioning 1800 Whereabouts Sunk on October 23, 1805

Ship dimensions and crew length 55.88 m ( Lüa ) width 14.9 m Draft Max. 7.25 m displacement 2980  t   crew 687 men

Armament 32 × 32 pounder 32 × 18 pounder 16 × 8 pounder

The Aigle (German: "Adler") was a sailing warship of the French Navy .

history

The Aigle was completed in 1800 in the Rochefort shipyard .

In 1805 she sailed with the Algésiras to the West Indies to meet the French fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve .

On October 21, 1805, she took part in the Battle of Trafalgar and was captured by the British . During the battle 70 of the 755 men of the crew were killed and 100 others were wounded; the captain of the ship was also killed.

The following day the French team managed to regain control of the ship, which had been taken as a prize by the British . However, on October 23, 1805, it was shipwrecked during a storm .

Web links

• the Aigle on wrecksite.eu (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ Holger Afflerbach : The art of defeat . A story of surrender. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3406645389 , p. 134.