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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thésée (1790), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
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| Name: | Thésée |
| Namesake: | Theseus |
| Ordered: | 19 October 1787 |
| Builder: | Rochefort |
| Laid down: | March 1788 |
| Launched: | 14 April 1790 |
| In service: | August 1790 |
| Out of service: | 7 December 1804 |
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| Fate: | Broken up in 1816 |
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| Class and type: | Téméraire class ship of the line |
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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 |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Thésée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley.