French ship Suffren (1803)
The Suffren was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Suffren (1803), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Suffren |
Namesake | Admiral Pierre André de Suffren |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 7 August 1801 |
Launched | 17 September 1803 |
Out of service | 1815 |
Fate | Broken up in 1823 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
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Length | 55.87 m (183 ft 4 in) (172 French feet) |
Beam | 14.90 m (48 ft 11 in) (44' 6) |
Draught | 7.26 m (23 ft 10 in) (22 French feet) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Complement | 678 men |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
Suffren took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Amable Troude.
She operated in the Mediterranean until the end of the First Empire, and was decommissioned shortly thereafter.
Suffren was razeed in 1816, and used as a prison hulk on Toulon harbour.
She was eventually broken up in 1823.
Sources and references
- Ships of the line
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 424. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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