Career
Built	Brest, May 31, 1791
Fate	Sunk, 22 October 1805
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,630 tons
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Width:
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Class:	Third rate
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Complement:	690
Armament:	74 guns: 28 x 36 pdr (16 kg) 30 x 24 pdr (11 kg) 16 x 8 pdr (3.6 kg) 4 x 36 pdr (16 kg) carronades

Built after plans by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané, the Redoutable was launched as Suffren on May 31, 1791. Her crew took part in the mutiny of the vessels attached to the squadron of Vice-Admiral Morard de Galles. Download high resolution version (1600x948, 374 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links French-Ensign. ... Location within France Brest, at the tip of Brittany Brest is a city in the Bretagne région, north-west France, sous-préfecture of the Finistère département. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The word ton or tonne is derived from the Old English tunne, and ultimately from the Old French tonne, and referred originally to a large cask with a capacity of 252 wine gallons, which holds approximately 2100 pounds of water. ... This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... The pound is the name of a number of units of mass, all in the range of 300 to 600 grams. ... The international prototype, made of platinum-iridium, which is kept at the BIPM under conditions specified by the 1st CGPM in 1889. ... The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, similar to a mortar, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland. ... Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740 - 22 August 1831) was a French naval engineer, one of the most successful ship-builders of the Age of Sail. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Mutiny is the crime of conspiring to disobey orders that the mutineer is legally obliged to obey, for example by crew members of a ship. ... Vice Admiral is a naval rank of three star level, equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority. ...

She was subsequently renamed Redoutable on May 20, 1794. In March 1802, the Redoutable was the flagship of a squadron of 2 ships of the line and 4 frigates under Admiral Bouvet sent to reinforce Guadeloupe in 1802 and Santo Domingo in 1803. 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ... Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ... François Joseph Bouvet (23 April 1753 - 21 July 1832) was a French admiral. ... translate Inside the colonial city, the first citadel (Fortaleza Ozama), the first hospital (hospital de San Nicolás de Bari), the first cathedral (catedral de Santo Domingo), and the first monastery (Monasterio de San Francisco) in the Western Hemisphere were built. ...

At the Battle of Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805, she was commanded by capitaine de vaisseau Lucas. She was closely engaged by HMS Victory eventually striking to her. Combatants United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland First French Empire, Spain Commanders The Viscount Nelson † Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve Strength 27 ships of the line, 4 frigates, 2 others France: 18 ships of the line, 8 others Spain: 15 ships of the line Casualties 449 killed; 1,214... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the late 18th century ship of the line HMS Victory. ...

Her crew fiercely engaged the Victory, causing much damage. The crew and soldiers of the Redoutable maintained a heavy fire on the quarterdeck with hand-grenades and small arms, and a French marksman mortally wounded Admiral Horatio Nelson from the fighting top. Lord Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. ...

The French crew were about to board the Victory when the HMS Temeraire intervened, firing on the exposed French crew at point blank range. At 1.55 p.m., the Redoutable, with Captain Lucas severely wounded, and only 99 men still fit out of 643, slowly sinking and with no hope of rescue, struck her colours. The fighting Téméraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up by J. M. W. Turner, 1838. ...

The Victory had 160 casualties, and the Temeraire, 120. The Redoutable sank the next day.

See French ship Suffren and French ship Redoutable for other ships of this name. Seven of ships of the French Navy have bore the name of Suffren, after the XVIIIth Century admiral Pierre André de Suffren: A 74-gun ship of the line (1791-1794), later renamed and better known as Redoutable. ... At least two vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable. ...