Trocadéro was a first-rate 118-gun built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Completed in 1824, the ship was never commissioned. She was accidentally destroyed by fire in 1836.
Description The later Océan-class ships had a length of at the gun deck and were long at the keel. They had a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 5095 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 2,794–2,930 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 1,130 officers and ratings. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged with a sail area of .Winfield & Roberts, pp. 44, 46–47
The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Océan class consisted of thirty-two 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck, thirty-four 24-pounder long guns on the middle gun deck and on the upper gundeck were thirty-four 18-pounder long guns. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of fourteen 8-pounder long guns and a dozen 36-pounder carronades.Winfield & Roberts, p. 47
Construction and career Trocadero was ordered on 20 March 1813 with the name Formidable and was laid down at the Arsenal de Toulon in September. She remained on the stocks until the French Navy decided that she was needed. The ship was renamed Trocadero in 1823, launched on 14 April 1824, and completed in October without being commissioned. On 24 March 1836, as she was refitting in Toulon, she was accidentally set afire and destroyed.Roche p. 447Winfield, p. 48
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Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing.
External links L’incendie du Trocadéro à Toulon (1836), Nicolas Mioque La fin du Trocadéro, vaisseau de 1er rang (1836), Nicolas Mioque