French ship Tourville (1853)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Tourville.

Tourville (third from the left) at the Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855 by John Wilson Carmichael
History
France
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	Sail Steam engine, 650 hp (485 kW)
Armament	90 guns
Armour	Timber

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

Career

Part of the Baltic Fleet off Cronstadt, ships L-R; Orion; Du Quesne; Royal George; and Tourville, Flag Ship of Admiral Pénaud. Illustrated London News 1855

She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sveaborg 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. On the 30 May 1856 off the island of Marmora she collided with a British Government Troopship and horse carrier, the Argo returning troops from the Crimea, ^[3] compelling the Argo to put in for repairs at Constantinople. ^[4]

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]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.443
2. Sail ships of the line (3rd class, 80-90 guns)
3. "General Screw Steam Company meeting". Bankers Circular. 16 August 1856. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
4. "Her Majesty's visit to the Argo". London Morning News. 7 August 1856. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 443. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line