French ship Austerlitz (1852)

The Austerlitz in 1854, drawing by Louis Le Breton
History
France
Namesake: Battle of Austerlitz
Builder: Cherbourg
Laid down: 17 August 1832
Launched: 15 September 1852
Fate: scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Hercule class
Displacement: 4500 tonnes
Length: 70.62 m (231.7 ft)
Beam: 16.80 m (55.1 ft)
Draught: 7.67 m (25.2 ft)
Propulsion:
  • Sail
  • Steam engine after 1850, 500 shp
Speed: 10.2 knots (18.9 km/h; 11.7 mph)
Complement: 883
Armament: 100 guns
Armour: Timber

The Austerlitz was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Service history

Laid down as Ajax, she was renamed Austerlitz on 28 November 1839, still on keel.

In 1850, her rigging was changed for that of a 90-gun, and a steam engine was installed.

She took part in operations in the Black Sea in 1854.

From 1871, she was used as a prison hulk of prisoners of the Paris Commune. Between 1874 and 1894, she was used as a school ship. She was eventually broken up in 1895.

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