French_ship_Neptune_(1818)

French ship <i>Neptune</i> (1818)

French ship Neptune (1818)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Neptune.

The Neptune was an 80-gun Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Sané.

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Started in 1810, briefly renamed Brabançon during the Hundred Days and launched in 1818, after the Bourbon Restoration, she remained without commission until 1839.

She was part of a squadron under Admiral Hugon, along with Montebello and Andromaque.

She was struck in 1858 and used as a prison ship in Toulon harbour between 1865 and 1868 when she was broken up.[1]

Citations

  1. [1]
    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. p. 325. 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.
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