French ship Jemmapes (1840)
For other ships with the same name, see French ship Jemmapes.
 1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Jemmapes ' class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name: | Jemmapes[1] |
| Namesake: | Battle of Jemmapes [1] |
| Builder: | Lorient [1] |
| Laid down: | 26 April 1825 [1] |
| Launched: | 2 April 1836 [1] |
| In service: | 1840 [1] |
| Struck: | 1889 [1] |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hercule class |
| Displacement: | 4440 tonnes |
| Length: | 62.50 |
| Beam: | 16.20 |
| Draught: | 8.23 |
| Sail plan: | 3150 m² of sails |
| Complement: | 955 men |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | timber |
Jemmapes was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.
Service history
Ordered in 1824 as Indomptable and soon renamed Royal Charles, Jemmapes was laid down in 1825 but not completed before 1840. She took her definitive name after the July Revolution, on 9 August 1830. [1]
In 1844, Jemmapes took part in the Bombardment of Mogador in Joinville's squadron. Desactivated in 1851, she took part in the Crimean War, first in the Baltic Sea in 1854, and in the Black Sea the next year. [1]
Decomissioned in 1864, Jemmapes was first used as a transport, and then hulked, before being scrapped in 1890. [1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 266. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 100-guns ships of the line
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