French ship Bretagne (1855)

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Career France
The Bretagne, painting by Jules Achille Noël, National Maritime Museum, London.
Builder:	Brest arsenal
Laid down:	January 1853
Launched:	17 February 1855
Commissioned:	1855
In service:	1855
Struck:	1879
Status:	Scrapped 1880
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5289 tonnes, 6875 tonnes full charge
Length:	81 metres (at the water line)
Beam:	18.08 metres
Draught:	8.56 m
Propulsion:	Indret steam engine, 8 boilers, 4800 shp, 1 propeler
Speed:	12.6 knots
Boats and landing craft carried:	1 13 metre boat, one 11.5 metre boat, 4 10.5 metre boats, 1 8 metre boat, 4 whaleboat, 2 dinghies
Capacity:	up to 1800 passengers
Complement:	1170 men
Armament:	Original: 130 guns lower battery : 18x "canon de 36" (43lb shot), 18x 80pdr shell gun (223mm shell) middle battery : 18x 30pdr (164mm shot), 18x 80pdr shell gun upper battery : 38x 30pdr forecastle : 2x "canon de 50" (56lb shot), 18x 30pdr carronades (164mm shot) in 1869 : lower battery: 2 190mm rifled guns canons rayés de 19 cm middle battery: 16 gun 30 n°2, 4 160cm rifled guns canons rayés (mod. 1864), 8 160mm rifled guns (mod. 1860 and 1862), 2 160mm muzzle-loading rifled guns, 2 140mm guns Bridge: 2 120mm bronze guns
Armour:	timber

The Bretagne was a fast 130-gun three-decker of the French Navy, designed by engineer Marielle. She was built after the Napoléon, and was fitted with a steam engine while under construction, though she had been laid down as a sail ship.