French ship Triomphant (1809)

	Scale model of the Trianon model collection on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris
History
France
Name:	Triomphant
Namesake:	"Triumphant"
Builder:	Rochefort
Laid down:	1804
Launched:	1809
Fate:	Hulk, 1828
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2966 tonnes; 5260 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:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour:	Timber

Triomphant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy (of the Duquesne sub-class). Built in Rochefort in 1804, she was launched in 1809. She was converted to a hulk in 1828.

She served as the canonical 74-gun ship of the line in the Trianon model collection.

Sources and references

Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Triomphant
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.

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