French ship Jupiter (1831)

Jupiter was a 3rd rank, 90-gun built for the French Navy during the 1830s. Completed in 1833, she played a minor role in the Crimean War of 1854–1855.

Description

Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Bucentaure-class ships had a length of, a beam of and a depth of hold of. The ships displaced 3,868 tonneaux and had a mean draught of. They had a tonnage of 2,034 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 866 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.
The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Bucentaure class consisted of thirty 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty-two 24-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. The armament on the quarterdeck and forecastle varied as the ships' authorised armament was changed over the years that the Bucentares were built. Jupiter was fitted with fourteen 12-pounder long guns and fourteen 36-pounder carronades.

Construction and career

Jupiter was laid down on 5 November 1811 at the Arsenal de Cherbourg and named on 25 November. The ship was launched on 22 October 1831 and completed in September 1833. She was commissioned on 20 November 1835. Jupiter ferried Admiral de Markau from Brest to Fort-de-France, Martinique, to replace Admiral Halgan as governor of the French Antilles in 1836. The ship transported troops to French Algeria the following year. She took part in the naval parade of 6 September 1850 in Cherbourg, and in the Crimean War. Jupiter was stricken on 4 May 1863, hulked as a barracks ship at Rochefort and broken up in 1870.