French ship Jemmapes (1840) facts for kids

1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Jemmapes ' class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
Quick facts for kids History
France
Name	Jemmapes
Namesake	Battle of Jemmapes
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	26 April 1825
Launched	2 April 1836
In service	1840
Stricken	1889
Fate	Scrapped 1890
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

Jemmapes was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Service history

Ordered in 1824 as Indomptable and soon renamed Royal Charles, Jemmapes was laid down in 1825 but not completed before 1840. She took her definitive name after the July Revolution, on 9 August 1830.

In 1844, Jemmapes took part in the Bombardment of Mogador in Joinville's squadron. In October or November 1848, she was driven ashore at Civitavecchia, Papal States. Deactivated in 1851, she took part in the Crimean War, first in the Baltic Sea in 1854, and in the Black Sea the next year.

Decommissioned in 1864, Jemmapes was first used as a transport, and then hulked, before being scrapped in 1890.