French ship Duguay-Trouin (1854)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Duguay-Trouin.

History
1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Duguay-Trouin ' class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
France
Name:	Duguay-Trouin^[1]
Namesake:	René Duguay-Trouin
Builder:	Lorient ^[1]
Laid down:	17 September 1827 ^[1]
Launched:	29 March 1854 ^[1]
Struck:	22 July 1872 ^[1]
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hercule class
Displacement:	4440 tonnes
Length:	62.50
Beam:	16.20
Draught:	8.23
Sail plan:	3150 m² of sails
Complement:	955 men
Armament:	100 guns, including: 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck) 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck) 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck) 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
Armour:	timber

Duguay-Trouin was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Started in 1827 as a 100-gun sailing ship, Duguay-Trouin, still unfinished, was transformed on keel from 1856. In 1860 she sailed to New Caledonia and became the first steam ship to cross Cape Horn.^[1]

From 1863, she was decommissioned and served as hospital from 1867 before becoming a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune. She was renamed Vétéran in the 1870s, and was broken up around 1877.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.162

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
100-guns ships of the line

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