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History | |
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France | |
Name | Fontenoy |
Namesake | Battle of Fontenoy |
Builder | Toulon |
Laid down | July 1827 |
Launched | 2 December 1858 |
In service | 1860 |
Stricken | 10 February 1892 |
Fate | Scrapped 1911 |
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 m of sails |
Complement | 810 to 846 men |
Armament |
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Armour | 6.97 cm of timber |
The Fontenoy was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only in French service named in honour of Battle of Fontenoy.
Career
She was part of the Toulons squadron until 1871, when she was converted into a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune.
In 1878, her engines were removed and she became a transport. Her name changed to Bretagne and she was used as a boys' school ship for the École des mousses.
She was eventually decommissioned in 1892 and broken up in 1911.
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 206. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 90-guns ships-of-the-line