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French ship Fleurus (1853)

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Name
  
Fleurus

Laid down
  
April 1825

Struck
  
17 August 1869

Launched
  
2 December 1853

Builder
  
Toulon

In service
  
1855

Construction started
  
April 1825

Weight
  
4,440 tons

French ship Fleurus (1853)

Namesake
  
Battle of Ligny, also known as Battle of Fleurus

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

Service history

Ordered in 1825 as Brianée and soon renamed Dauphin Royal, Fleurus was laid down in 1825 but not completed before 1855. She took her definitive name after the July Revolution, on 9 August 1830.

From January 1855, she conducted her engine trials. She proceeded to the Black Sea to take part in the Crimean War. In 1862, she served as a troopship for the French intervention in Mexico.

She finished her career as a hulk in Saigon, headquarters to the French naval division of Indochina.

References

French ship Fleurus (1853) Wikipedia