French ship Louis-XIV (1854)

	Engraving by Lebreton showing Louis XIV as a naval school
History
France
Namesake:	"Thundering", Louis XIV of France
Builder:	Rochefort shipyard
Laid down:	1811
Launched:	1854
Decommissioned:	1873
Renamed:	Louis-XIV in 1828
Stricken:	3 May 1880
Reinstated:	sail/steam ship in 1857.
Fate:	Broken up in 1882.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement:	2,700 tonnes
Length:	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196.6 French feet)
Beam:	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught:	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion:	sail, 3,265 m2 (35,144 sq ft)
Complement:	1,079
Armament:	Rated as 120-gun:; lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns; middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns; upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns; forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades;

Louis XIV was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Laid down as Tonnant in 1811 at Rochefort, she was renamed Louis-XIV in 1828, still on keel. She was launched only in 1854, and was put in the reserve the next year.

On 28 January 1855, she departed Toulon to take part in the Siege of Sevastopol as a transport ship. From September 1856 to 1857, she was converted to combined sail/steam propulsion in Brest harbour, using machinery supplied by Robert Napier of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857.

Louis XIV was decommissioned between 1858 and 1861, and was affected to the École Navale as a gunnery training ship from 1861 to 1865. That year, she was sent to Toulon. In 1870, her crew was sent to Paris to defend the city against the advancing Prussian armies. Training resumed in November 1870.

In 1873, Louis XIV was decommissioned again. She was struck on 3 May 1880, and sold for scrap in 1882.

Representations of Louis XIV

Louis XIV nearing completion
Engraving of the launch
Louis XIV in the roads of Brest in 1865, after conversion to a steam ship of the line. Photograph by Jules Maréchal.

Bibliography

Jones, Colin (1996). "Entente Cordiale, 1865". In McLean, David & Preston, Antony (eds.). Warship 1996. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-685-X.

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