French ship Suffren (1801)
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The Suffren was a Téméraire class
Téméraire class ship of the line
The Téméraire class ships of the line was a class of 107 74-gun ships of the line built between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy. The type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built....
74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy
French Navy
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Suffren took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805
Allemand's expedition of 1805
Allemand's expedition of 1805, often referred to as the Escadre invisible in French sources, was an important French naval expedition during the Napoleonic Wars, which formed a major diversion to the ongoing Trafalgar campaign in the Atlantic Ocean...
under Captain Amable Troude
Amable Troude
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She operated in the Mediterranean until the end of the First Empire
First French Empire
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Suffren was razeed in 1816, and used as a prison hulk on Toulon harbour.
She was eventually broken up in 1823.