Hercule-class ship of the line

The Hercule class was a late type of 100-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They were the second strongest of four ranks of ships of the line designed by the Commission de Paris. While the first units were classical straight-walled ships of the line, next ones were gradually converted to steam, and the last one was built with an engine.

Design
The Hercule class evolved as an enlargement of the straight-walled, 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line, suggested by Jean Tupinier.

With the Henri IV, a rounded stern was introduced. The next ships were built with the rounded stern, and it was retrofitted on the early units of the class.

Units

 * FRENCH SHIP Hercule
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 * FRENCH SHIP Jemmapes
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 * FRENCH SHIP Tage
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 * FRENCH SHIP Henri IV
 * Builder:Cherbourg
 * Begun:1829
 * Launched:1848
 * Completed:1850
 * Fate: Bombardment of Odessa (1854). Lost in a storm at Eupatoria in the Crimea (14.11.1854)


 * FRENCH SHIP Austerlitz
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 * FRENCH SHIP Fleurus
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 * Annibal, renamed Prince Jérôme
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 * FRENCH SHIP Dugay Trouin
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 * FRENCH SHIP Turenne
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 * FRENCH SHIP Ulm, Lys renamed 1830
 * Builder:Rochefort
 * Begun:1825
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 * Fate: Bombardment at Kinburn (1855)


 * FRENCH SHIP Wagram, Bucentaure renamed 1839
 * Builder:Lorient
 * Begun:1833
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 * Fate: Bombardment at Kinburn (1855)


 * FRENCH SHIP Navarin
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 * FRENCH SHIP Eylau
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