French ship Roi-de-Rome (1816)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Sans Pareil and French ship Inflexible.

The Roi de Rome ("King of Rome") was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

1/48 scale model of the Océan class 120-gun ship of the line Commerce de Marseille, sister-ship of the Roi-de-Rome. On display at Marseille naval museum.
History
France
Name	Roi de Rome
Fate	Broken up incomplete 1816
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 guns, 6 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Ordered as Sans Pareil, she was renamed successively Roi de Rome, Inflexible and back to the Roi de Rome in 1812 alone.

She remained in an unfinished state until 1816, when some of her wood was found to have rotted, and she was broken up. The sound timbers were used for the refitting of Wagram.

A model of a 80-gun two-decker named Roi de Rome (CnAM 4024) is on display at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris; the ship is fictitious and bears no connection to 120-gun Roi de Rome.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 385. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.