Watercolour portrait of Duguay-Trouin, by François Roux
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Duguay-Trouin [1] |
Namesake | René Duguay-Trouin |
Builder | Lorient [1] |
Laid down | 17 September 1827 [1] |
Launched | 29 March 1854 [1] |
Stricken | 22 July 1872 [1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1877 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hercule class |
Displacement | 4440 tonnes |
Length | 62.50 metres |
Beam | 16.20 metres |
Draught | 8.23 metres |
Sail plan | 3150 m² of sails |
Complement | 955 men |
Armament |
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Armour | timber |
Duguay-Trouin was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.
Started in 1827 as a 100-gun sailing ship, Duguay-Trouin, still unfinished, was transformed on keel from 1856. In 1860 she sailed to New Caledonia and became the first steam ship to cross Cape Horn. [1]
From 1863, she was decommissioned and served as hospital from 1867 before becoming a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune. She was renamed Vétéran in the 1870s, and was broken up around 1877. [1]