French ship Tage

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Scale model on display at the Musée de la Marine
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Builder: Brest shipyard
Laid down: 26 August 1824
Launched: 15 August 1847
Struck: 6 May 1884
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement: 4 331 tonnes
Length: 65.02 metres
Beam: 16.82 metres
Draught: 7.55 metres
Propulsion:

Sail ( 2668 m²)

Napier steam engine, 500 shp
Speed: 10.7 knots
Capacity: 170 tonnes of coal
Complement: 883 men
Armament:

1858
Lower deck:16 36-pounders, 16 22cm-Praixans guns
Middle deck:32 30-pounders
Upper deck: 14 16cm Praixans guns, 6 30-pounder caronades
1881
Decks: 4x14cm + 1x12cm

Forecastle: 4x12cm
Armour: Timber

The Tage ("Tagus") was a 100-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She was laid down as Polyphème in 1824, renamed Saint Louis, and eventually Tage. She was launched only in 1847. From 1857 to 1858, she was converted to steam ship.

She was used as a prison ship for the insurgents of the Commune of Paris, and later was used to ferry prisoners to New Caledonia.

She served as a hulk before being scrapped in 1896.

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