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French frigate Guerrière (1860)

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Name
  
Guerrière

Builder
  
Brest

Decommissioned
  
28 May 1888

Construction started
  
8 June 1848

Namesake
  
"Warrior"

Laid down
  
8 June 1848

Class and type
  
56-gun frigate

Launched
  
3 May 1860

French frigate Guerrière (1860)

Guerrière was a sail and steam 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 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.

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German was 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.

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

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

References

French frigate Guerrière (1860) Wikipedia