French ship Tourville (1853)
Tourville was a 90-gun sail and steam ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
Tourville (third from the left) at the Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855 by John Wilson Carmichael | |
History | |
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Name: | Tourville |
Namesake: | Anne Hilarion de Tourville |
Builder: | Brest [1] |
Laid down: | 26 August 1847 [1] |
Launched: | 31 October 1853 [1] |
Out of service: | 12 August 1872 [1] |
Fate: | Scrapped 1878[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Tourville-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 4,400 tonnes |
Length: | 61.40 m (201.4 ft) |
Beam: | 16.69 m (54.8 ft)[2] |
Draught: | 7.23 m (23.7 ft)[2] |
Propulsion: |
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Armament: | 90 guns |
Armour: | Timber |
Career
She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sweaborg on 10 August 1855.[1] She later took part in the French Intervention in Mexico as a troop ship.[1]
Put in ordinary in 1864, she was hulked in Cherbourg in 1871 to serve as a prison for survivors of the Paris Commune. Struck the next year, she was renamed to Nestor and eventually broken up in 1878.[1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
- Roche, vol.1, p.443
- Sail ships of the line (3rd class, 80-90 guns)
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 443. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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