Name Intrépide Launched 17 November 1864 Length 72 m | Laid down 2 November 1853 Struck 6 December 1889 Construction started 2 November 1853 | |
Class and type Algésiras class ship of the line | ||
The Intrépide was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Under Captain Claude Gennet, Intrépide was used as a troopship to bring the expeditionary corps of the French intervention in Mexico back to France. She took part in the Siege of Sfax in 1881.
From 1883, she was a school ship of the École navale, and from 1887 she was hulked as barracks. Renamed Borda in 1890, she was used again by the École navale, and was eventually broken up in 1921.
References
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