title: French ship Albanais (1808)
text: # French ship Albanais (1808)
  
  Albanais was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
  
  ## Career
  
  Ordered on 31 July 1806, Albanais was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.
  
  She was commissioned on 1 October 1808. In March 1808, part of her crew transferred on Tilsitt, and she had to complement her complement with Danish sailors. She served in Missiessy's Escault squadron under Pierre Lhermite.
  
  In 1814, according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, she was surrendered to the Dutch and renamed Batavier. She was broken up in 1817.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.29
  * ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  * ↑ Levot, p. 315
  * ↑ Winfield p.96
  