French ship Souverain (1819)

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

300px Decorative aft panel of Souverain, on display at Toulon naval museum
History
France
Namesake:	"Sovereign"
Builder:	Toulon
Laid down:	1813
Launched:	1819
Fate:	Scrapped in 1905
General characteristics
Class & type:	Océan class ship of the line
Displacement:	2 700 tonnes
Length:	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet)
Beam:	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught:	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion:	sail, 3 265 m² 2400 shp steam engine (from 1853)
Complement:	1 079 men
Armament:	Rated as 120-gun: lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades

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.

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  Souverain as a hulk in Toulon harbour

• Souverain-Bougault.jpg

Notes, citations, and references

References

• (French) Le Souverain (1819 – 1885), Nicolas Mioque