Name Saint Louis Builder Brest In service 8 April 1854 Construction started 13 July 1848 Length 60 m Draft 7.4 m | Namesake Louis IX of France Laid down 13 July 1848 Struck 26 November 1894 Launched 26 April 1853 Weight 4,070 tons | |
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The Saint Louis 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 1850. She took part in the Crimean War as a troopship, bombed the Tétouan forts on 20 November 1859, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.
She was renamed Cacique in 1881 and served as a gunnery school, and was eventually broken up in 1895.
References
French ship Saint Louis (1854) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA