Wagram was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.
1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Wagram 's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Wagram[1] |
Namesake | Battle of Wagram |
Builder | Lorient [1] |
Laid down | 22 August 1833 [1] |
Launched | 12 June 1854 [1] |
Stricken | 1867 [1] |
Fate | Sunk as Target April 29, 1867 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hercule class |
Displacement | 4440 tonnes |
Length | 62.50 |
Beam | 16.20 |
Draught | 8.23 |
Sail plan | 3150 m² of sails |
Complement | 955 men |
Armament |
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Armour | timber |
Service history
editStarted as Bucentaure, Wagram took part in the Crimean War and in the Battle of Kinburn. In 1862, she served in the French intervention in Mexico.[1]
On 29 April 1867, she was sunk as a target for torpedo trials.[1]
Citations
editReferences
edit- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 475. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 100-guns ships of the line