French ship Duguay-Trouin (1854)

	Watercolour portrait of Duguay-Trouin, by François Roux
History
France
Name:	Duguay-Trouin[1]
Namesake:	René Duguay-Trouin
Builder:	Lorient [1]
Laid down:	17 September 1827 [1]
Launched:	29 March 1854 [1]
Stricken:	22 July 1872 [1]
Fate:	Scrapped 1877
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hercule class
Displacement:	4440 tonnes
Length:	62.50 metres
Beam:	16.20 metres
Draught:	8.23 metres
Sail plan:	3150 m² of sails
Complement:	955 men
Armament:	100 guns, including:; 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck); 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck); 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck); 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck);
Armour:	timber

Duguay-Trouin was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Started in 1827 as a 100-gun sailing ship, Duguay-Trouin, still unfinished, was transformed on keel from 1856. In 1860 she sailed to New Caledonia and became the first steam ship to cross Cape Horn.[1]

From 1863, she was decommissioned and served as hospital from 1867 before becoming a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune. She was renamed Vétéran in the 1870s, and was broken up around 1877.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

Roche, vol.1, p.162

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
100-guns ships of the line

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[roche162-1] Roche, vol.1, p.162