Name Masséna Builder Toulon Struck 9 May 1879 Construction started September 1835 Length 60 m Draft 7.4 m | Laid down September 1835 Fate Scrapped Launched 15 March 1860 Weight 4,070 tons | |
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The Masséna was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only ship in French service named in honour of André Masséna.
Career
Laid down as Spectre, the ship was renamed Masséna in 1840. She took part in the French intervention in Mexico from 1861. She was used as a transport from 1867, and struck off on 9 May 1879. From 1880, she was used as barracks in Toulon, and she was eventually broken up in 1906.
References
French ship Masséna (1860) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA