Name Latouche-Tréville Laid down June 1858 Commissioned 7 May 1860 Launched 16 February 1860 Draft 3.76 m | Ordered 3 August 1857 Completed May 1860 Construction started June 1858 Weight 695 tons Builder Toulon Dockyard | |
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Namesake Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville | ||
The Latouche-Tréville was a wooden-hulled steam sloop aviso of the French Navy, a sistership to the D'Estaing. They were designed by Louis Dutard for both service on foreign stations and for various duties in home waters (including fishery protection).
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Career
After her commissioning, Latouche-Tréville sailed to Tahiti, where she was assigned to the French naval station of the Pacific Ocean. She returned to Brest on the 27 January 1868 to be decommissioned on 23 February 1867.
She was recommissioned on the 4 October 1868, and served off Terre-Neuve until 15 October 1870, when she was again decommissioned.
On 15 April 1873, she began her third commission for service in the South Atlantic. In September 1881, she took part in operations off Tunisia.
Fate
Latouche-Tréville was struck on 5 June 1886.