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French ship Jemmapes (1840)

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Name
  
Jemmapes

Builder
  
Lorient

In service
  
1840

Construction started
  
26 April 1825

Weight
  
4,440 tons

Namesake
  
Battle of Jemmapes

Laid down
  
26 April 1825

Struck
  
1889

Launched
  
2 April 1836

French ship Jemmapes (1840)

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.

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.

Decommissioned in 1864, Jemmapes was first used as a transport, and then hulked, before being scrapped in 1890.

References

French ship Jemmapes (1840) Wikipedia