French ship Fontenoy (1858)

	1900 Rade de Brest
History
France
Name	Fontenoy
Namesake	Battle of Fontenoy
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	July 1827
Launched	2 December 1858
In service	1860
Stricken	10 February 1892
Fate	Scrapped 1911
General characteristics
Class & type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4,070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m2 of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

NameFontenoy

BuilderToulon ^[1]

Laid downJuly 1827 ^[1]

The Fontenoy was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the only in French service named in honour of Battle of Fontenoy.

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