French ship Ajax (1806)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Ajax (1806), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Ajax
Namesake	Ajax
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	23 November 1804
Launched	17 June 1806
Decommissioned	1815
Fate	Broken up
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:; 6 × 8-pounder long guns; 10 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Ajax was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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