French_ship_Suffren_(1803)

French ship <i>Suffren</i> (1803)

French ship Suffren (1803)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Suffren.

The Suffren was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Quick Facts History, General characteristics ...

Suffren took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Amable Troude.

She operated in the Mediterranean until the end of the First Empire, and was decommissioned shortly thereafter.

Suffren was razeed in 1816, and used as a prison hulk on Toulon harbour.

She was eventually broken up in 1823.

Sources and references

  • Ships of the line
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 424. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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