French frigate Guerrière (1860)

Guerrière was a sail and steam Dryade-class frigate of the French Navy. She is known as the flagship of Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Guerrière.

Guerrière in Nagasaki harbour, 1865.
History
France
Name:	Guerrière
Namesake:	"Warrior"
Builder:	Brest
Laid down:	8 June 1848[1]
Launched:	3 May 1860[1]
Decommissioned:	28 May 1888[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Dryade class
Tons burthen:	3600 tons
Propulsion:	Sails 2400 shp Creuzot steam engine, 1 retractacle propeller
Complement:	475 men (230 if armed en flûte)
Armament:	34 guns

Career

Built as a 56-gun sail frigate on a design by Boucher and Masson, Guerrière was transformed by Jumboisation of steam engine section in October 1866. As such, under Captain Olivier, she became Pierre-Gustave Roze's flagship during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.[1]

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German was prisoners after the Franco-Prussian War. The next year, under Commander Charles Boucarut, she transported prisoners of the Paris Commune sentenced to deportation to New Caledonia.[1]

In the following years, she shuttled between France and Algeria before being hulked in 1889 and broken up around 1913.[1]

A model of Guerrière is on display at the Musée national de la Marine, inside a dry dock.

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  Guerrière as a hulk, photographed by Marius Bar around 1900
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  1/48th scale model of dry dock n°1 of Toulon harbour, with the model of Guerrière placed inside by order of Admiral Pâris.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.234

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 234. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.