Ship of the line of the French Navy
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History |
France |
Name | Breslaw |
Namesake | Wrocław |
Builder | Brest [1] |
Laid down | 26 May 1827 [1] |
Launched | 21 July 1848 [1] |
Stricken | 22 July 1872 [1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1886 |
General characteristics |
Class and type | Suffren-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 4070 tonnes |
Length | 60.50 m (198.5 ft) |
Beam | 16.28 m (53.4 ft) |
Draught | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Propulsion | 3,114 m2 (33,520 sq ft) of sails |
Complement | 810 to 846 men |
Armament | |
Armour | 6.97 cm of timber |
Breslaw was a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the twenty-second ship in French service named in honour of Louis IX of France.
Career
Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1839. She took part in the Crimean War as a troop ship, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.[1]
She was used as a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune, then as an ammunition store, and was eventually broken up in 1886.[1]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.85
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. JMR. Jean-Michel Roche. p. 85. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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