French ship Le Triomphant (1804)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Le Triomphant.

History
Scale model on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris
France
Name:	Le Triomphant
Namesake:	"Triumphant"
Builder:	Rochefort
Laid down:	1804
Launched:	1809
Fate:	Hulk, 1828
General characteristics
Class & type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2966 tonnes 5260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam:	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught:	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion:	Up to 2,485 m² (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

The Triomphant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy (of the Duquesne sub-class). Built in Rochefort in 1804, she was launched in 1809. She was converted to a hulk in 1828.

Sources and references

Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Triomphant
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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