Suffren was a wooden-hulled, armored frigate of the Océan class, built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s as an improvement over the Provence-class ironclad. Although she was laid down in 1866, the ship was not launched until 1872 and commissioned in 1876. Suffren was one of the French ships assigned to the international squadron gathered to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin in 1880. The ship was paid off in 1895 and discarded two years later.