French ship Wagram (1854)

	1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Wagram 's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
History
France
Name:	Wagram[1]
Namesake:	Battle of Wagram
Builder:	Lorient [1]
Laid down:	22 August 1833 [1]
Launched:	12 June 1854 [1]
Stricken:	1867 [1]
Fate:	Sunk as Target April 29 1867
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hercule class
Displacement:	4440 tonnes
Length:	62.50
Beam:	16.20
Draught:	8.23
Sail plan:	3150 m² of sails
Complement:	955 men
Armament:	100 guns, including:; 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck); 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck); 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck); 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck);
Armour:	timber

Wagram was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Started as Bucentaure, Wagram took part in the Crimean War and in the Battle of Kinburn. In 1862, she served in the French intervention in Mexico.[1]

On 29 April 1867, she was sunk as a target for torpedo trials.[1]

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 475. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
100-guns ships of the line

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