French ship Généreux (1831)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Généreux (1831), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Généreux
Namesake	Generous
Ordered	10 September 1812
Builder	Cherbourg
Laid down	3 July 1813
Launched	23 September 1831
Decommissioned	21 November 1855
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck:; 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck:; 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 6 × 8-pounder long guns; 10 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Généreux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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