French ship Généreux (1831)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Généreux (1831), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Généreux
Namesake	Generous
Ordered	10 September 1812
Builder	Cherbourg
Laid down	3 July 1813
Launched	23 September 1831
Decommissioned	21 November 1855
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck:; 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck:; 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 6 × 8-pounder long guns; 10 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Généreux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ordered in the late days of the First French Empire, Généreux was not completed before 1831, and then stayed in ordinary for years before finally becoming active in 1839, when she was appointed to Admiral Lalande's squadron in the Atlantic, under Captain Durand. In 1841, she served in the Mediterranean under Captain Graëb.^[1]

From 1852, she was used as a prison ship, and served as barracks in Toulon from 1865 before being broken up.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Roche, vol.1, p.223
^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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[roche223-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Roche, vol.1, p.223

[2] Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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