French ship Turenne (1854)

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

1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Turenne 's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
History
France
Name	Turenne [1]
Namesake	Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
Builder	Rochefort [1]
Laid down	13 June 1827 [1]
Launched	15 April 1854 [1]
Stricken	25 November 1867 [1]
Fate	Scrapped 1887
General characteristics
Class & type	Hercule class
Displacement	4440 tonnes
Length	62.50
Beam	16.20
Draught	8.23
Sail plan	3150 m2 of sails
Complement	955 men
Armament	100 guns, including: 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck) 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck) 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck) 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
Armour	timber

Turenne was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Soon after her commissioning, Turenne was used as a troopship in the Crimean War. Transformed into a steam and sail ship in 1858 and 1859, she conducted trials in 1860 and served during the French intervention in Mexico. ^[1]

Put in ordinary from 1862, she was decommissioned in 1867 and used as a coaling hulk in Brest from 1869. She was eventually broken up around 1887. ^[1]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.450

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 450. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• 100-guns ships of the line