French ship Iéna (1814)

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Silver scale model of the Commerce de Paris, sister-ship of the Iéna, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Namesake: Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
Builder: Rochefort shipyard
Laid down: 6 March 1805
Launched: 30 August 1814
Commissioned: 26 November 1814
Decommissioned: 31 December 1864
General characteristics
Class and type: 110-gun Commerce de Paris class ship of the line
Length: 62.5 metres
Beam: 16.3 metres
Draught: 8.1 metres
Complement: 1060 men
Armament:

110 guns:

  • 30 x 36 pdr (16 kg)
  • 32 x 24 pdr (11 kg)
  • 30 x 12 pdr
  • 8 x 8 pdr (3.6 kg)
  • 12 x 36 pdr (16 kg) carronades

The Iéna was a Commerce de Paris class 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She was laid down on 6 March 1805 as Victorieux ("Victor").

During her construction, she was renamed Iéna, and Duc d'Angoulême with the Bourbon Restoration. She was launched on 30 August 1814. The next year, during the Hundred Days, she briefly took back her name of Iéna, and was renamed Duc d'Angoulême again thereafter. On 9 August 1830, following the July Revolution, she took her name of Iéna.

In 1854, she took part in the Crimean War, and was converted to a troopship the next year.

She was struck on 31 December 1864, and served as a hulk in Toulon until 1915.

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