French_ship_Triton_(1823)

French ship <i>Triton</i> (1823)

French ship Triton (1823)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

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

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

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Career

Ordered in 1806 as Vénitien, Triton was not completed before 1823, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration.[1]

Triton transferred to Toulon in 1835. In 1841, serving under Captain Bruat, she brought an epidemic of Gastroenteritis, then called "Cholera morbus", to Figuières.[1]

In 1844, Triton took part in the Bombardment of Mogador.[1]

Decommissioned in 1847, Triton served as a floating battery in Cherbourg before being towed to Rochefort in 1849, where she was used as a hulk into the 1870s.[1]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Roche, vol.1, p.447
  2. [2]
    Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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