French ship Fontenoy (1858)

1900 Rade de Brest
History
France
Name	Fontenoy
Namesake	Battle of Fontenoy
Builder	Toulon [1]
Laid down	July 1827 [1]
Launched	2 December 1858 [1]
In service	1860 [1]
Stricken	10 February 1892 [1]
Fate	Scrapped 1911
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4 070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m² of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

The Fontenoy was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only in French service named in honour of Battle of Fontenoy.

Career[]

She was part of the Toulons quadron until 1871, when she was converted into a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune.^[1]

In 1878, her engines were removed and she became a transport. Her name changed to Bretagne and she was used as a boys' school ship for the École des mousses.^[1]

She was eventually decommissioned in 1892 and broken up in 1911.^[1]

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References[]

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 206. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line