French ship Souverain (1819)

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Decorative aft panel of Souverain, on display at Toulon naval museum
Career (France) French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign
Namesake: "Sovereign"
Builder: Toulon
Laid down: 1813
Launched: 1819
Fate: Scrapped in 1905
General characteristics
Class and type: Océan class ship of the line
Displacement: 2 700 tonnes
Length: 65,18 metres (196,6 French feet)
Beam: 16,24 metres (50 French feet)
Draught: 8,12 metres (25 French feet)
Propulsion: sail, 3 265 m²
2400 shp steam engine (from 1853)
Complement: 1 079 men
Armament:

Lower deck: 32 36-pound guns
middle deck: 34 24-pound guns
upper deck: 34 12-pound guns

forecastle: 18 8-pound guns, 6 36-pound carronades

Souverain was an Océan type 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was launched in 1819 and transformed into a steam ship in 1853.

In 1853, she was refitted to receive a 2,400 shp (1,800 kW) steam engine.

From 1857, she was as a gunnery school in Toulon, and later as a barracks hulk. She was broken up in 1905.

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