Suffren class ship of the line


1/20th scale model on display at the Musée national de la Marine
Class overview
Name: Suffren
Builders: Toulon, Brest
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Bucentaure class ship of the line
Succeeded by: Hercule class
Completed: 14
General characteristics
Class and type: Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement: 4 070 tonnes
Length: 60.50 metres
Beam: 16.28 metres
Draught: 7.40 metres
Propulsion: 3114 m² of sails
Complement: 810 to 846 men
Armament:

1824-1839:
30 × 30-pounders on lower deck
32 × 30-pounders on middle deck
24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks
1839-1840
26 × 30-pounders and 4 ×22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck
32 × 30-pounders on middle deck

24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour: 6.97 cm of timber

The Suffren class was a late type of 90-gun ships of the line of the French Navy.

Intended as successors of the 80-gun Bucentaure class by Jean Tupinier, they introduced the innovation of having straight walls, instead of the Tumblehome design that had prevailed until then; this tended to heighten the ships' centre of gravity, but provided much more room for equipment in the upper decks. Stability issues was fixed with underwater stabilisers.

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