Hercule-class ship of the line
# Hercule-class ship of the line

The Hercule class was a late type of 100-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They were the second strongest of four ranks of ships of the line designed by the Commission de Paris. While the first units were classical straight-walled ships of the line, next ones were gradually converted to steam, and the last one was built with an engine.

## Design

The Hercule class evolved as an enlargement of the straight-walled, 90-gun Suffren class, suggested by Jean Tupinier.

With the Henri IV, a rounded stern was introduced. The next ships were built with the rounded stern, and it was retrofitted on the early units of the class.

## Units

* Hercule (1836)

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* Jemmapes (1840)

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* Tage

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* Henri IV

    Builder:Cherbourg
    Begun:1829
    Launched:1848
    Completed:1850
    Fate: Bombardment of Odessa (1854). Lost in a storm at Eupatoria in the Crimea (14.11.1854)
* Austerlitz

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* Fleurus

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* Annibal, renamed Prince Jérôme

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* Dugay Trouin

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* Turenne

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* Ulm, Lys renamed 1830

    Builder:Rochefort
    Begun:1825
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* Wagram, Bucentaure renamed 1839

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    Begun:1833
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* Navarin

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* Eylau

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