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French ship Trocadéro (1824)

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Ship of the line of the French Navy

History
Explosion of Trocadéro. Drawing by Antoine Morel-Fatio.
France
Name	Trocadéro
Launched	14 April 1824
Fate	Destroyed by fire 24 March 1836
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan class ship of the line
Displacement	2 700 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail, 3 265 m²
Complement	1 079 men
Armament	Rated as 120-gun: lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns forecastle: 18 8-pounder gunss, 6 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

The Trocadéro was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Ordered as Formidable, she was commissioned in Toulon as Trocadéro in 1824.

On 24 March 1836, as she was refitting in Toulon, she was accidentally set afire. The fire destroyed her.

Citations

Roche p.447

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
(in French) L’incendie du Trocadéro à Toulon (1836), Nicolas Mioque
(in French) La fin du Trocadéro, vaisseau de 1er rang (1836), Nicolas Mioque

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1836
Shipwrecks	30 Jan: Diligente 26 Mar: Trocadéro 20 May: Vicissitude 25 May: Didon, Stirling Castle July (unknown date): Adventure 10 Aug: Camden 5 Oct: Lord Melville 25 Oct: Royal Tar 31 Oct: Montebello 16 Dec: Barton 20 Dec: Eliza December (unknown date): Pascoa
Other incidents	3 Nov: USS Brandywine 3 Dec: Francis Spaight
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