The Duquesne was a 90-gun Tourville-class sail and steam ship of the line of the French Navy.
![]() The Duquesne, drawing by Louis Le Breton
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Namesake | Abraham Duquesne |
Builder | Brest |
Launched | 2 December 1853 |
Fate | Scrapped 1887 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tourville-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 4400 tonnes |
Length | 61.40 m (201.4 ft) |
Beam | 16.69 m (54.8 ft) [1] |
Draught | 7.23 m (23.7 ft)[1] |
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Armament | 90 guns |
Armour | Timber |
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She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sweaborg on 10 August 1855. She later took part in the French Intervention in Mexico as a troop ship.
She was used as a barracks hulk until 1887.
Citations
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edit- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.