Jupiter was an 80-gun Bucentaure-class ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Sané.
Napoléon, and Jupiter, in Besika Bay, July 1853 | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Jupiter |
Namesake | Jupiter |
Ordered | 25 November 1811 |
Builder | Cherbourg |
Laid down | 5 November 1811 |
Launched | 22 October 1831 |
In service | 20 November 1835 |
Stricken | 9 May 1863 |
Fate | Broken up 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bucentaure-class ship of the line |
Length |
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Beam | 15.27 m (50.10 ft) |
Depth of hold | 7.63 m (25.03 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | 2,683 m2 (28,879.57 sq ft) |
Complement | 866 |
Armament |
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In 1836, she ferried Admiral de Markau from Brest to Fort de France to replace Admiral Halgan as governor in the Caribbean. In 1837, she ferried troops to Algeria. She took part in the naval parade of 6 September 1850 in Cherbourg, and in the Crimean War.
Struck in 1863, she was used as a barracks hulk in Rochefort until being broken up in 1870.[1]
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. p. 270. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.
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