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	Guerrière in Nagasaki harbour, 1865.
History
France
Name	Guerrière
Namesake	"Warrior"
Builder	Brest
Laid down	8 June 1848
Launched	3 May 1860
Decommissioned	28 May 1888
General characteristics
Class and type	Dryade-class frigate
Tons burthen	3,600 tons
Propulsion	Sails; 2,400 shp (1,800 kW) Creuzot steam engine, 1 retractable propeller;
Complement	475 men (230 if armed en flûte)
Armament	34 guns

Guerrière was a sail and steam Dryade-class frigate of the French Navy. She is known as the flagship of Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.

Career

Built as a 56-gun sail frigate on a design by Boucher and Masson, Guerrière was transformed by jumboisation of the steam engine section in October 1866. As such, under Captain Olivier, she became Pierre-Gustave Roze's flagship during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.^[1] On 30 August 1867, Guerrière was severely damaged in a typhoon in the South China Sea whilst on a voyage from Japan to Hong Kong, China.^[2]

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German war prisoners after the Franco-Prussian War. The next year, under Commander Charles Boucarut, she transported prisoners of the Paris Commune sentenced to deportation to New Caledonia.^[1]

In the following years, she shuttled between France and Algeria before being hulked in 1889 and broken up around 1913.^[1]

A model of Guerrière is on display at the Musée national de la Marine, inside a dry dock.

Guerrière as a hulk, photographed by Marius Bar around 1900
1/48 scale model of dry dock n°1 of Toulon harbour, with the model of Guerrière placed inside by order of Admiral Pâris.

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.234
^ "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard. No. 13485. London. 25 October 1867. p. 7.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 234. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.