French ship Trocadéro (1824)

History
Explosion of Trocadéro. Drawing by Antoine Morel-Fatio.
France
Name:	Trocadéro
General characteristics
Class & type:	Océan class ship of the line
Displacement:	2 700 tonnes
Length:	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet)
Beam:	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught:	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion:	sail, 3 265 m²
Complement:	1 079 men
Armament:	Rated as 120-gun: lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns forecastle: 18 8-pounder gunss, 6 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

The Trocadéro was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Ordered as Formidable, she was commissioned in Toulon as Trocadéro in 1824.

On 23 March 1836, as she was refitting in Toulon, she was accidentally set afire and burned down.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
(French) L’incendie du Trocadéro à Toulon (1836), Nicolas Mioque
(French) La fin du Trocadéro, vaisseau de 1er rang (1836), Nicolas Mioque

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