Charlemagne was an 80-gun French ship of the line.

She was laid down in 1850, launched on 16 January 1851 and commissioned on 14 September 1851 before being completed in December.

[2] The ship was sent by Napoleon III to the Black Sea as a show of force in violation of the London Straits Convention just prior to the Crimean War.

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