French ship Masséna (1860)

History
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Masséna's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
France
Name:	Masséna
Namesake:	André Masséna
Builder:	Toulon ^[1]
Laid down:	September 1835 ^[1]
Launched:	15 March 1860 ^[1]
Struck:	9 May 1879 ^[1]
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement:	4 070 tonnes
Length:	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam:	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught:	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion:	3114 m² of sails
Complement:	810 to 846 men
Armament:	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour:	6.97 cm of timber

The Masséna was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only ship in French service named in honour of André Masséna.

Career

Laid down as Spectre, the ship was renamed Masséna in 1840. She took part in the French intervention in Mexico from 1861. She was used as a transport from 1867, and struck off on 9 May 1879. From 1880, she was used as barracks in Toulon, and she was eventually broken up in 1906. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.301

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 301. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
90-guns ships-of-the-line

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