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French ship Trocadéro (1824)

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Explosion of Trocadéro. Drawing by Antoine Morel-Fatio.
History
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Name: Trocadéro
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:
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 23 March 1836, as she was refitting in Toulon, she was accidentally set afire and burned down.


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