French ship Suffren (1803)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Suffren.

The Suffren was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Suffren (1803), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Suffren
Namesake	Admiral Pierre André de Suffren
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	7 August 1801
Launched	17 September 1803
Out of service	1815
Fate	Broken up in 1823
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 m (183 ft 4 in) (172 French feet)
Beam	14.90 m (48 ft 11 in) (44' 6)
Draught	7.26 m (23 ft 10 in) (22 French feet)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Complement	678 men
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder long guns Forecastle and quarterdeck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Suffren took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Amable Troude.

She operated in the Mediterranean until the end of the First Empire, and was decommissioned shortly thereafter.

Suffren was razeed in 1816, and used as a prison hulk on Toulon harbour.

She was eventually broken up in 1823.

Sources and references

• Ships of the line
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 424. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.