French ship Tage

Scale model on display at the Musée National de la Marine in Paris
History
France
Name:	Tage
Namesake:	Battle of the Tagus
Builder:	Brest shipyard
Laid down:	26 August 1824
Launched:	15 August 1847
Struck:	6 May 1884
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hercule class
Displacement:	4 331 tonnes
Length:	65.02 m (213.3 ft)
Beam:	16.82 m (55.2 ft)
Draught:	7.55 m (24.8 ft)
Propulsion:	Sail ( 2668 m²) Napier steam engine, 500 shp
Speed:	10.7 knots (19.8 km/h; 12.3 mph)
Capacity:	170 tonnes of coal
Complement:	883 men
Armament:	1858 Lower deck:16 × 36-pounders + 16 × 22cm-Paixhans guns Middle deck:32 30-pounders Upper deck: 14 × 16cm Paixhans guns + 6 × 30-pounder carronades 1881 Decks: 4 × 14cm guns + 1 × 12cm gun Forecastle: 4 × 12cm guns
Armour:	Timber

The Tage ("Tagus") was a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Service history

She was laid down as Polyphème in 1824, renamed Saint Louis, and eventually Tage. She was launched only in 1847. From 1857 to 1858, she was converted to steam ship.

After 1871, she was used as a prison ship to hold insurgents of the Commune of Paris. Later she ferried prisoners to New Caledonia.

She served as a hulk before being scrapped in 1896.

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• 100-guns ships of the line