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French ship Wagram (1854)

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Name
  
Wagram

Builder
  
Lorient

Struck
  
1867

Construction started
  
22 August 1833

Weight
  
4,440 tons

Namesake
  
Battle of Wagram

Laid down
  
22 August 1833

Fate
  
Scrapped

Launched
  
12 June 1854

French ship Wagram (1854)

Wagram was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Started as Bucentaure, Wagram took part in the Crimean War and in the Battle of Kinburn. In 1862, she served in the French intervention in Mexico.

On 29 April 1867, she was sunk as a target for torpedo trials.

References

French ship Wagram (1854) Wikipedia