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French ship Masséna (1860)

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Name
  
Masséna

Builder
  
Toulon

Struck
  
9 May 1879

Construction started
  
September 1835

Length
  
60 m

Draft
  
7.4 m

Namesake
  
Laid down
  
September 1835

Fate
  
Scrapped

Launched
  
15 March 1860

Weight
  
4,070 tons

French ship Masséna (1860)

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


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