 Scale model on display at the Musée National de la Marine in Paris
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| History | |
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| Name | Tage |
| Namesake | Battle of the Tagus |
| Builder | Brest shipyard |
| Laid down | 26 August 1824 |
| Launched | 15 August 1847 |
| Stricken | 6 May 1884 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hercule-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 4,331 tonnes |
| Length | 65.02 m (213 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 16.82 m (55 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 7.55 m (24 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10.7 knots (19.8 km/h; 12.3 mph) |
| Capacity | 170 tonnes of coal |
| Complement | 883 men |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Timber |
The Tage ("Tagus") was a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.
Service history
She was laid down as Polyphème in 1824, renamed Saint Louis, and eventually Tage. She was launched only in 1847. On 12 February 1855, she ran aground in the Kamiesch, in the Crimea. She was refloated. From 1857 to 1858, she was converted to steam ship.
After 1871, she was used as a prison ship to hold insurgents of the Commune of Paris. Later she ferried prisoners to New Caledonia.
She served as a hulk before being scrapped in 1896.
Citations
- Roche, p.429
- "Express from Paris". The Morning Chronicle. No. 27510. London. 26 February 1855.
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. p. 429. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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