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French ship Austerlitz (1852)
Lebreton engraving-18
The Austerlitz in 1854, drawing by Louis Le Breton
Career (France) Civil and Naval Ensign of France
Namesake: Battle of Austerlitz
Builder: Cherbourg
Laid down: 17 August 1832
Launched: 15 September 1852
Fate: scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type: 100-gun ship of the line
Displacement: 4500 tonnes
Length: 70.62 metres
Beam: 16.80 metres
Draught: 7.67 metres
Propulsion:

Sail

Steam engine after 1850, 500 shp
Speed: 10.2 knots
Complement: 883
Armament: 100 guns
Armour: Timber

The Austerlitz was a late 100-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Laid down as Ajax, she was renamed Austerlitz on 28 November 1839, still on keel.

In 1850, her rigging was changed for that of a 90-gun, and a steam engine was installed.

She took part in operations in the Black Sea in 1854.

From 1871, she was used as a prison hulk of prisoners of the Paris Commune. Between 1874 and 1894, she was used as a school ship. She was eventually broken up in 1895.

External links[]

  • Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I
  • 100-guns ships of the line
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