French ship Masséna (1860)

	1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Masséna's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Masséna
Namesake	André Masséna
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	September 1835
Launched	15 March 1860
Stricken	9 May 1879
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4 070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m² of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

The Masséna was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Laid down as Spectre, the ship was renamed Masséna in 1840. She took part in the French intervention in Mexico from 1861. She was used as a transport from 1867, and struck off on 9 May 1879. From 1880, she was used as barracks in Toulon, and she was eventually broken up in 1906.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roche, vol.1, p.301

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 301. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
90-guns ships-of-the-line

[roche301-1] Roche, vol.1, p.301

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