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French ship Souverain (1819)

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Namesake
  
"Sovereign"

Fate
  
Scrapped in 1905

Construction started
  
1813

Weight
  
2,700 tons

Laid down
  
1813

Displacement
  
2 700 tonnes

Launched
  
1819

Builder
  
Toulon

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Class and type
  
Océan class ship of the line

Length
  
65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet)

Souverain was an Océan type 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was launched in 1819 and transformed into a steam ship in 1853.

Service history

In 1853, she was refitted to receive a 2,400 shp (1,800 kW) steam engine.

From 1857, she was as a gunnery school in Toulon until she was replaced in this role by Couronne in 1885, and later as a barracks hulk. She was broken up in 1905.

References

French ship Souverain (1819) Wikipedia