French ship Ville de Bordeaux (1860)

History
France
Name	Ville de Bordeaux
Namesake	Bordeaux
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	26 June June 1854
Launched	21 May 1860
Decommissioned	14 January 1879
General characteristics
Class and type	Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line
Displacement	5150 tonnes
Length	71.7 metres (235 ft)
Beam	16.8 metres (55 ft 1 in)
Draught	8.0 metres (26.2 ft)
Propulsion	Up to 2,730 m2 (29,400 sq ft) of sails Mangin steam engine, one propeller
Crew	490
Armament	14 × 30-pounder riffled guns 48 × 30-pounder smooth-bore guns 16 × 24-pounder howitzers
Armour	Timber

Ville de Bordeaux was a Ville de Nantes-class 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ville de Bordeaux conducted trials in 1861 before being put in ordinary. Reactivated under Captain Delangle de Cary in 1862 for the French intervention in Mexico, she served for three years before returning to the ordinary. She was reactivated again, this time under Commander Mer, to bring back the French troops in Mexico back to France.

After the Paris Commune, Ville de Bordeaux was used as a prison hulk in Brest. In January 1880, she was renamed Bretagne and replaced Bretagne as a boys' schoolship, role which retained until 1894, when Fontenoy, also renamed Bretagne, took her place.

Notes, citations, and references

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 467. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.