French ship Triton (1823)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Triton (1823), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Triton
Namesake	Triton
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	September 1814
Launched	22 September 1823
Decommissioned	16 May 1850
Fate	Hulk until 1870s
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

Career

Ordered in 1806 as Vénitien, Triton was not completed before 1823, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration.

Triton transferred to Toulon in 1835. In 1841, serving under Captain Bruat, she brought an epidemic of Gastroenteritis, then called "Cholera morbus", to Figuières.

In 1844, Triton took part in the Bombardment of Mogador.

Decommissioned in 1847, Triton served as a floating battery in Cherbourg before being towed to Rochefort in 1849, where she was used as a hulk into the 1870s.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.