Couronne was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Completed in 1825, she played a minor role in the Crimean War of 1854âÂÂ1855.
Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Téméraire-class ships had a length of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.
The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. After about 1807, the armament on the quarterdeck and forecastle varied widely between ships with differing numbers of 8-pounder long guns and 36-pounder carronades. The total number of guns varied between sixteen and twenty-eight. The 36-pounder obusiers formerly mounted on the poop deck () in older ships were removed as obsolete.
Couronne was ordered on 20 February 1812, laid down on 15 October 1813 at the Arsenal de Brest and launched on 26 August 1824. The ship was completed the following year and commissioned on 23 February 1830. Couronne took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. She was later renamed Barricade, and Duperré after Admiral Duperré's death. The ship participated in the Crimean War. On 22 July 1854, she ran aground off àland, Grand Duchy of Finland but was undamaged. She was refloated with the assistance of and . Couronne was towed to Saigon, French Indo-China, in 1861 and became the flagship of the naval forces there. The ship was stricken on 17 August 1869 and broken up in January 1870.