French ship Wagram (1854)

Not to be confused with French ship Wagram (1810).

1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Wagram 's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
History
France
Name	Wagram [1]
Namesake	Battle of Wagram
Builder	Lorient [1]
Laid down	22 August 1833 [1]
Launched	12 June 1854 [1]
Stricken	1867 [1]
Fate	Sunk as Target April 29, 1867
General characteristics
Class & type	Hercule class
Displacement	4440 tonnes
Length	62.50
Beam	16.20
Draught	8.23
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

Wagram 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 as Bucentaure, Wagram took part in the Crimean War and in the Battle of Kinburn. In 1862, she served in the French intervention in Mexico. ^[1]

On 29 April 1867, she was sunk as a target for torpedo trials. ^[1]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.475

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 475. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• 100-guns ships of the line