French ship Triton (1823)
![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Triton (1823), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
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Name | Triton |
Namesake | Triton |
Builder | Rochefort[1] |
Laid down | September 1814 [1] |
Launched | 22 September 1823 [1] |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1850 [1] |
Fate | Hulk until 1870s |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
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Length | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
Beam | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
Triton was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]Ordered in 1806 as Vénitien, Triton was not completed before 1823, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration.[1]
Triton transferred to Toulon in 1835. In 1841, serving under Captain Bruat, she brought an epidemic of Gastroenteritis, then called "Cholera morbus", to Figuières.[1]
In 1844, Triton took part in the Bombardment of Mogador.[1]
Decommissioned in 1847, Triton served as a floating battery in Cherbourg before being towed to Rochefort in 1849, where she was used as a hulk into the 1870s.[1]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.