French ship Diadème (1811)

	The Robuste, sister-ship of the Diadème
History
France
Name	Diadème
Namesake	Diadem
Ordered	29 October 1807
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	November 1807
Launched	30 November 1811
Stricken	21 January 1856
Fate	Broken up 1868
General characteristics
Class and type	Bucentaure-class ship of the line
Length	55.88 m (183 ft 4 in) (overall); 53.92 m (176 ft 11 in) (keel);
Beam	15.27 m (50 ft 1 in)
Depth of hold	7.63 m (25 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	Sail
Sail plan	2,683 m2 (28,880 sq ft)
Complement	866
Armament	86 guns; 30 × 36-pounders; 32 × 24-pounders; 18 × 12-pounders; 6 × 36-pounder howitzers;

Diadème was an 86-gun Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Commissioned in Lorient in January 1812, Diadème was disarmed at the Bourbon Restoration. She had major refits in 1822 and 1833, and was reactivated in 1826 to join the squadron of the Mediterranean.

The ship was used as a barracks hulk from 1856 and was broken up in 1868.^[1]

Citations

^ Winfield & Roberts p.58

References

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.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.

[1] Winfield & Roberts p.58

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