French ship Ulm (1809)
Ulm was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1809, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars. The ship was stricken from the navy list in 1828 and scrapped after 1830
Description
Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Téméraire-class ships had a length of, a beam of and a depth of hold of. The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of. They had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of sixteen 8-pounder long guns. Beginning with the ships completed after 1787, the armament of the Téméraires began to change with the addition of four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck. Some ships had instead twenty 8-pounders.