The Suffren class was a late type of 90-gun ships of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 of the French Navy.

Intended as successors of the 80-gun Bucentaure class

Bucentaure class ship of the line

The Bucentaure class was a class of 80-gun French ships of the line built to a design by Jacques-Noël Sané from 1802 onwards, of which at least 29 were ordered but only 21 ships were launched...

 by Jean Tupinier, they introduced the innovation of having straight walls, instead of the Tumblehome

Tumblehome

In ship designing, the tumblehome is the narrowing of a ship's hull with greater distance above the water-line. Expressed more technically, it is present when the beam at the uppermost deck is less than the maximum beam of the vessel....

 design that had prevailed until then; this tended to heighten the ships' centre of gravity, but provided much more room for equipment in the upper decks. Stability issues was fixed with underwater stabilisers.

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• Suffren
  French ship Suffren (1824)
  The Suffren was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy named in honour of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, lead ship of her class.The Suffren was the first ship of the line built with straight sides....
  
  

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• Inflexible

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• Bayard

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• Jean Bart
  French ship Jean Bart (1852)
  The Jean Bart was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean Bart.She took part in the Siege of Sevastopol and the Battle of Kinburn ....
  
  

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• Donawerth
  French ship Donawerth (1854)
  The Donawerth was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy.Her keel was laid in Lorient in 1827. She stayed abandoned in an unbuilt state for several years before being completed as a steam ship...
  
  

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• Saint Louis

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• Ulm

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• Wagram

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• Castiglione

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• Massena

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