Scale model on display at the Musée National de la Marine in Paris | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Tage |
Namesake | Battle of the Tagus |
Builder | Brest shipyard |
Laid down | 26 August 1824 |
Launched | 15 August 1847 |
Stricken | 6 May 1884 |
Fate | Scrapped 1896 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hercule-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 4,331 tonnes |
Length | 65.02 m (213 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 16.82 m (55 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 7.55 m (24 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10.7 knots (19.8 km/h; 12.3 mph) |
Capacity | 170 tonnes of coal |
Complement | 883 men |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
The Tage ("Tagus") was a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.
She was laid down as Polyphème in 1824, renamed Saint Louis, and eventually Tage. She was launched only in 1847. [1] On 12 February 1855, she ran aground in the Kamiesch, in the Crimea. She was refloated. [2] From 1857 to 1858, she was converted to steam ship.
After 1871, she was used as a prison ship to hold insurgents of the Commune of Paris. Later she ferried prisoners to New Caledonia.
She served as a hulk before being scrapped in 1896.
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