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{{other ships|French ship Suffren}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Suffren-IMG 8647.jpg | Ship caption=1/20th scale model on display at the Musée national de la Marine
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Suffren class ship of the line | Ship type= | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=4 070 tonnes | Ship tons burthen= | 60.50|m|abbr=on}} | 16.28|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 7.40|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=3114 m² of sails | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=810 to 846 men | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*1824-1839:- 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck
- 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck
- 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks
- 1839-1840
- 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck
- 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck
- 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
| Ship armour=6.97 cm of timber | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | The Suffren was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was the third ship in French service named in honour of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez. Career The Suffren was the first ship of the line built with straight sides, after the specifications of the Commission de Paris, instead of the traditional tumblehome common on ships of the line. She took part in the Battle of Tagus on 11 July 1831, under Captain Trotel, as Albin Roussin's flagship, and stayed off Lisbon for one month thereafter, leaving Portugal on 14 August. The next year, she took part in the Battle of Ancona, on 22 February, ferrying 1500 infantrymen. In 1838 she ran aground near Cádiz after a tempest. She was refloated by the steam ships Iéna and Phare. She took part in the war against Morocco in August 1844, bombing Tangier on the 6 August and landing troops in Mogador on 16. In 1854, Suffren was involved in the Crimean War. In July, an epidemic of cholera in the fleet in the Black Sea killed 20 and sickened 100 aboard. On 17 October, Suffren took part in the siege of Sevastopol. The next year, she was converted to a troop ship. From 1857 to 1860, she was used as a gunnery school by the École Navale, before being stricken on 4 April 1861 and converted to a hulk. She was renamed Ajax on 8 April 1865, and scrapped in 1874. {{commons category|Suffren (ship, 1831)}} External links - [https://web.archive.org/web/20080120233101/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V2.html 90-guns ships-of-the-line]
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