French ship Marengo (1810)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Marengo and French ship Pluton.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Marengo (1810), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Marengo
Namesake	Battle of Marengo
Builder	Lorient shipyard
Laid down	18 September 1806
Launched	12 October 1810
Renamed	Pluton 1866
Stricken	21 July 1858
Fate	Broken up in 1873
General characteristics [1]
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 m^2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

On 5 January, she collided with the Tourville off Brest.

In November 1814, under René Lemarant de Kerdaniel, she took part in the French repossession of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830, and in the Battle of the Tagus under Captain Maillard Liscourt the next year.

Marengo at Sebastopol, during the first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England on 17 October 1854

In 1854, she took part in the Crimean War.

She was struck on 21 July 1858 and was used as a prison hulk from 1860 to 1865. In 1866, she was renamed Pluton.

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  Model of Marengo, on display at Toulon Naval Museum
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  Model of Marengo, on display at Toulon Naval Museum

See also

• List of ships of the line of France

Citations

1. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.