French ship Tigre (1793)

	Tigre in 1795
History
France
Name	Tigre
Namesake	Tiger
Builder	Brest
Laid down	1790
Launched	8 May 1793
Captured	22 June 1795
Great Britain
Name	Tigre
Acquired	22 June 1795 by capture
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"
Fate	Broken up in June 1817.
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2966 tonnes; 5260 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	Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Fc and QD: 16 × 8-pounder long guns + 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Tigre was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Later it was captured by the British and, as HMS Tigre, operated as part of the Royal Navy throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

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