French ship Marengo (1810)

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Name: Marengo
Namesake: Battle of Marengo
Builder: Lorient shipyard
Laid down: 18 September 1806
Launched: 12 October 1810
Struck: 21 July 1858
Fate: Broken up in 1873
General characteristics
Class and type: Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:

2 966 tonnes

5 260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 55.87 metres (172 French feet)
Beam: 14.90 metres (44' 6)
Draught: 7.26 metres (22 French feet)
Propulsion: Up to 2 485 m² of sails
Complement: 678 men
Armament:

74 guns:

  • Lower gundeck: 28 x 36-pdr long guns
  • Upper gundeck: 30 x 24-pdr long guns
  • Forecastle and Quarter deck:
16 x 8-pdr long guns
4 x 36-pdr carronades
Armour: Timber

The Marengo was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

On 5 January, she collided with the Tourville off Brest.

In November 1814, she took part in the reconquest of Guadeloupe.

She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830, and in the expedition on river Tage the next year.

In 1854, she took part in the Crimean War.

She was struck on 21 July 1858 and was used as a prison hulk from 1860 to 1865. In 1866, she was renamed Pluton.

References

  • Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I