French ship Intrépide (1864)

History
France
Name	Intrépide
Builder	Rochefort. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Laid down	2 November 1853
Launched	17 November 1864
Stricken	6 December 1889
General characteristics
Class and type	Algésiras class ship of the line
Displacement	5160 tonnes
Length	71.6 m (235 ft)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draught	8.1 m (27 ft)
Propulsion	Sail (2010 m²); 3604 HP 8-boiler steam engine;
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	340 men
Armament	4 138mm guns; 4 revolver guns; 2 37mm guns;
Armour	timber

The Intrépide was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Under Captain Claude Gennet, Intrépide was used as a troopship to bring the expeditionary corps of the French intervention in Mexico back to France. She took part in the Siege of Sfax in 1881. ^[1]

From 1883, she was a school ship of the École navale, and from 1887 she was hulked as barracks. Renamed Borda in 1890, she was used again by the École navale, and was eventually broken up in 1921. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.258

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 251. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Borda, netmarine.net

[roche258-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.258

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