French ship Duguay-Trouin (1854) facts for kids

Watercolour portrait of Duguay-Trouin, by François Roux
Quick facts for kids History
France
Name	Duguay-Trouin
Namesake	René Duguay-Trouin
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	17 September 1827
Launched	29 March 1854
Stricken	22 July 1872
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	100 guns, including: 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck) 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck) 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck) 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
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.

Service history

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.

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.