French ship Duguay-Trouin (1854)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Duguay-Trouin.

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 & 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]

Citations

1. 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