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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CAPITAL SHIPS

COMMERCE DE PARIS sailing ships-of-the-line (1807-1815)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Commerce de Paris (ex-Ville de Paris), 8.1830- Commerce     Arsenal de Toulon 10/1804 8.8.1806 5/1807 stricken 1.1839
Duc d'Angouleme (ex-Victorieux), 3.1815- Iéna, 7.1815- Duc d'Angouleme, 8.1830- Iéna     Arsenal de Rochefort 6.4.1805 30.8.1814 1/1815 two-decker 1833, HQ ship 1.862
Monarque     Antwerp 4/1810 --- --- BU incomplete 1810s
Hymen     Antwerp 5/1810 --- --- to Allies 8.1814, BU
Neptune     Antwerp 5/1811 --- --- BU incomplete 1910s
Terrible     Antwerp 6/1811 --- --- to Allies 8.1814, BU

 

Displacement normal, t

4755

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.4 pp

Breadth, m

16.2

Draught, m

8.12

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

30 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 32 x 1 - 153/18 24pdr SBML, 32 x 1 - 121/20 12pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

Complement

1070

Project history: 118-gun three-deckers, smaller design by Jacques-NoëL Sané.

Modernizations: late 1810s, both: - 6 x 1 - 106/24; + 10 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades

early 1820s, both: - 4 x 1 - 106/24; + 2 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML caronades, 6 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr bronze SBML carronades

1833, Iéna: was armed with 4 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 26 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 32 x 1 - 165/15 30pdr SBML, 4 x 1 - 139/17 18pdr SBML

Naval service: Incomplete ships were captured by Allies on the stocks and divided between Allies and French, all ships were dismantled.

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