1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Duguesclin's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Duguesclin
Namesake	Bertrand du Guesclin
Builder	Rochefort [1]
Laid down	26 March 1823 [1]
Launched	3 May 1848 [1]
Stricken	17 December 1859 [1]
Fate	Ran aground and lost, scrapped on site
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	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

The Duguesclin was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the second ship in French service named in honour of Bertrand du Guesclin.

Career

Bayard was first used as barracks for prisoners sent to deportation to Îles du Salut, and then as a transport for those sent to the Bagne of Cayenne. She then took part in the Crimean War in the Black Sea in 1854 and 1855. ^[1] On 6 July 1854, Duguesclin ran aground on the Warren Rock, off Cronstadt, Russia as the buoy marking it had been removed by the Russians. Her upper and middle deck guns had to be removed before she could be refloated. ^[2]

In 14 December 1859, as she conducted trials of her newly installed steam engine under Commander Choux, ^[3] she ran aground on Île Longue. All efforts to raise her proved fruitless and she was scrapped. ^[1] Her engine was used on Jean Bart. ^[3]

Citations

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 162. ISBN  978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC  165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line