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The '''''Hercule'' class''' was a late type of 100-gun [[ship of the line|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 {{sclass|Suffren|ship of the line|4}}, suggested by [[Jean Tupinier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shipscribe.com/marvap/112a.pdf |title=Hercule-class sail ship of the line (2nd class, 100 guns) |first=Stephen S. |last=Roberts |work=shipscribe.com |year=2011 |access-date=23 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216034634/http://shipscribe.com/marvap/112a.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2012 }}</ref>

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 ==
* {{Ship|French ship|Hercule|1836|3}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Jemmapes|1840|3}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Tage|1847|2}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Henri IV||2}}
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:Begun:1829
:Launched:1848
:Completed:1850
:Fate: [[Bombardment of Odessa]] (1854). Lost in a storm at Eupatoria in the Crimea (14.11.1854)

* {{Ship|French ship|Austerlitz|1852|2}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Fleurus|1824|2}}
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[[File:Prince Jérôme-IMG 8770.jpg|thumb|1/75th-scale model of ''Prince Jérôme'', on display at the [[Swiss Museum of Transport]]. She was transformed into a sail and steam ship of the line while on keel.]]
* [[French ship Prince Jérôme|''Annibal'']], renamed ''Prince Jérôme''<ref>[http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V5a.html ''Loire'' (ex-''Hoche'', ex-''Prince Jérôme'', ex-''Annibal'')] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412194334/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V5a.html |date=2016-04-12 }}</ref>
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* {{Ship|French ship|Dugay Trouin|1854|2}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Turenne|1854|2}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Ulm|1854|2}}, ''Lys'' renamed 1830
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:Begun:1825
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:Fate: Bombardment at Kinburn (1855)

* {{Ship|French ship|Wagram|1854|2}}, ''Bucentaure'' renamed 1839
:Builder:Lorient
:Begun:1833
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:Fate: Bombardment at Kinburn (1855)

* {{Ship|French ship|Navarin|1854|2}}
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* {{Ship|French ship|Eylau|1856|2}}
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==Notes and references==
===References===
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1}}

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