French ship Triton (1823)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Triton (1823), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Triton
Namesake: Triton
Builder: Rochefort[1]
Laid down: September 1814 [1]
Launched: 22 September 1823 [1]
Decommissioned: 16 May 1850 [1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam: 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion: Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:
Armour: Timber

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

Career

Ordered in 1806 as Vénitien, Triton was not completed before 1823, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration. [1]

Triton transferred to Toulon in 1835. In 1841, serving under Captain Bruat, she brought an epidemic of Gastroenteritis, then called "Cholera morbus", to Figuières. [1]

In 1844, Triton took part in the Bombardment of Mogador.[1]

Decommissioned in 1847, Triton served as a floating battery in Cherbourg before being towed to Rochefort in 1849, where she was used as a hulk into the 1870s.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Roche, vol.1, p.447
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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