French ship Trocadéro (1824)

Explosion of Trocadéro. Drawing by Antoine Morel-Fatio.
History
France
Name	Trocadéro
Launched	14 April 1824
Fate	Destroyed by fire 24 March 1836
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan class ship of the line
Displacement	2 700 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail, 3 265 m²
Complement	1 079 men
Armament	Rated as 120-gun: lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns forecastle: 18 8-pounder gunss, 6 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

The Trocadéro was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Ordered as Formidable, she was commissioned in Toulon as Trocadéro in 1824.

On 24 March 1836, as she was refitting in Toulon, she was accidentally set afire. The fire destroyed her.^[1]

Citations

References

• 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.
• (in French) L’incendie du Trocadéro à Toulon (1836), Nicolas Mioque
• (in French) La fin du Trocadéro, vaisseau de 1er rang (1836), Nicolas Mioque

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