French ship Marengo (1810)

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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Marengo (1810), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameMarengo
NamesakeBattle of Marengo
BuilderLorient shipyard
Laid down18 September 1806
Launched12 October 1810
Stricken21 July 1858
FateBroken up in 1873
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Displacement
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

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

On 5 January, she collided with the Tourville off Brest.

In November 1814, under René Lemarant de Kerdaniel, she took part in the French repossession of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830, and in the Battle of the Tagus under Captain Maillard Liscourt the next year.

In 1854, she took part in the Crimean War.

She was struck on 21 July 1858 and was used as a prison hulk from 1860 to 1865. In 1866, she was renamed Pluton.

See also

References

  1. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  • Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I