French ship Couronne (1824)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Couronne (1824), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Couronne
Namesake	Crown
Builder	Brest
Laid down	1813
Launched	1824
Renamed	Barricade, 1848-49; Duperré, 1849;
Fate	Broken up in 1870
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Couronne was a Template:Sclass- 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. She was later renamed Barricade, and Duperré after Admiral Duperré's death. She was used as a hulk from 17 August 1859, and broken up the next year.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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[dossiersmarine-1] Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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