French ship Tage (1847)

	Scale model on display at the Musée National de la Marine in Paris
History
France
Name	Tage
Namesake	Battle of the Tagus
Builder	Brest shipyard
Laid down	26 August 1824
Launched	15 August 1847
Stricken	6 May 1884
Fate	Scrapped 1896
General characteristics
Class and type	Hercule-class ship of the line
Displacement	4,331 tonnes
Length	65.02 m (213 ft 4 in)
Beam	16.82 m (55 ft 2 in)
Draught	7.55 m (24 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	Sail, 2,668 m2 (28,720 sq ft); Napier steam engine, 370 kW (500 shp);
Speed	10.7 knots (19.8 km/h; 12.3 mph)
Capacity	170 tonnes of coal
Complement	883 men
Armament	1858; Lower deck:16 × 36-pounders + 16 × 22 cm Paixhans guns; Middle deck:32 30-pounders; Upper deck: 14 × 16cm Paixhans guns + 6 × 30-pounder carronades; 1881; Decks: 4 × 14 cm guns + 1 × 12 cm gun; Forecastle: 4 × 12 cm guns;
Armour	Timber

The Tage ("Tagus") was a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Service history

She was laid down as Polyphème in 1824, renamed Saint Louis, and eventually Tage. She was launched only in 1847.^[1] On 12 February 1855, she ran aground in the Kamiesch, in the Crimea. She was refloated.^[2] From 1857 to 1858, she was converted to steam ship.

After 1871, she was used as a prison ship to hold insurgents of the Commune of Paris. Later she ferried prisoners to New Caledonia.

She served as a hulk before being scrapped in 1896.

Citations

^ Roche, p.429
^ "Express from Paris". The Morning Chronicle. No. 27510. London. 26 February 1855.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. p. 429. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.