French ship Impérial
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A number of ships of the French Navy
have borne the name Impérial:
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
have borne the name Impérial:
- Impérial was a Dutch-built flûteEn flûteArming a ship en flûte means removing some or all of the artillery. Since ships have a limited amount of cargo space, they may be armed en flûte to make room for other cargo, such as troops and ammunition...
that the French Navy captured in 1794 (original name unknown); she was deleted at end 1795. - ImpérialFrench ship Vengeur (1803)The Vengeur was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané....
was a 118-gun Océan-classOcéan class ship of the lineThe Océan-type ships of the line were a series of 16 first-rate 118-gun ships of the line of the French navy, designed by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané. Fifteen were completed from 1788 on, with the last one entering service in 1854...
ship of the lineShip of the lineA ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
launched in 1803 as the VengeurFrench ship Vengeur (1803)The Vengeur was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané....
. She was renamed Impérial in 1805, captured by the British in 1806 at the Battle of San DomingoBattle of San DomingoThe Battle of San Domingo, in 1806, was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars. French and British squadrons of ships of the line met off the southern coast of the French-occupied Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean...
and burned. - ImpérialFrench ship Impérial (1811)The Impérial was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané and built by François Poncet....
was a 118-gun Océan-class ship of the line launched in 1811. She was renamed Royal Louis in April 1814, Impérial in March 1815 and Royal Louis in July 1815. She was broken up in 1825.