French ship Tourville (1853)

	The Duquesne, sister-ship of Tourville. drawing by Louis Le Breton
History
France
Name	Tourville
Namesake	Anne Hilarion de Tourville
Builder	Brest
Laid down	26 August 1847
Launched	31 October 1853
Out of service	12 August 1872
Fate	scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Tourville-class ship of the line
Displacement	4400 tonnes
Length	61.40 m (201.4 ft)
Beam	16.69 m (54.8 ft)
Draught	7.23 m (23.7 ft)
Propulsion	Sail; Steam engine, 650 HP;
Armament	90 guns
Armour	Timber

The Tourville was a 90-gun sail and steam ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Roche, vol.1, p.443
^ ^a ^b 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

[roche443-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Roche, vol.1, p.443

[shipscribe-2] Sail ships of the line (3rd class, 80-90 guns)

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