French ship Masséna (1860)
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Masséna's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine | |
History | |
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France | |
Name: | Masséna |
Namesake: | André Masséna |
Builder: | Toulon [1] |
Laid down: | September 1835 [1] |
Launched: | 15 March 1860 [1] |
Struck: | 9 May 1879 [1] |
Fate: | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Suffren class ship of the line |
Displacement: | 4 070 tonnes |
Length: | 60.50 m (198.5 ft) |
Beam: | 16.28 m (53.4 ft) |
Draught: | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Propulsion: | 3114 m² of sails |
Complement: | 810 to 846 men |
Armament: |
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Armour: | 6.97 cm of timber |
The Masséna was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only ship in French service named in honour of André Masséna.
Career
Laid down as Spectre, the ship was renamed Masséna in 1840. She took part in the French intervention in Mexico from 1861. She was used as a transport from 1867, and struck off on 9 May 1879. From 1880, she was used as barracks in Toulon, and she was eventually broken up in 1906. [1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 301. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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