The ''Suffren'' was a

74-gun The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently-de ...

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of the

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. ''Suffren'' took part in

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under Captain

Amable Troude Amable Gilles Troude (Cherbourg, 1 June 1762 – Brest, 1 February 1824) was a French Navy officer, who served in the Napoleonic Wars. Early career Troude joined the commerce navy in 1776. During the American Revolutionary War, he joined the Na ...

. She operated in the Mediterranean until the end of the

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, and was decommissioned shortly thereafter. ''Suffren'' was

razee A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down (''razeed'') to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French ''vaisseau rasé'', meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship. Seventeenth century During the ...

d in 1816, and used as a prison hulk on Toulon harbour. She was eventually broken up in 1823.

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