The Marengo was a Téméraire class

Téméraire class ship of the line

The Téméraire class ships of the line was a class of 107 74-gun ships of the line built between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy. The type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built....

 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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On 5 January, she collided with the Tourville

French ship Tourville (1788)

The Tourville was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.In August 1793, she was damaged by a tempest, which also killed her captain, and had to return to Brest...

 off Brest.

In November 1814, she took part in the reconquest of Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

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She took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830

Invasion of Algiers in 1830

The Invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Ottoman Regency of Algiers...

, and in the expedition on river Tage

Tage

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 the next year.

In 1854, she took part in the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

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She was struck on 21 July 1858 and was used as a prison hulk

Hulk (ship)

A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Although sometimes used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, the term most often refers to an old ship that has had its rigging or internal equipment removed, retaining only its flotational qualities...

from 1860 to 1865. In 1866, she was renamed Pluton.