Name Charlemagne Acquired 1843 Type Ship of the line Length 60 m | Namesake Charlemagne Commissioned 1852 Armament 80 guns | |
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Charlemagne was an 80-gun French ship of the line commissioned in 1852. The ship was in the Mediterranean Sea in 1852. The ship was sent by Napoleon III to the Black Sea as a show of force in violation of the London Straits Convention just prior to the Crimean War.
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