Name Tourville Laid down 26 August 1847 Fate scrapped Launched 31 October 1853 Weight 4,400 tons | Builder Brest Out of service 12 August 1872 Construction started 26 August 1847 Length 61 m Draft 7.23 m | |
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Namesake Anne Hilarion de Tourville | ||
The Tourville was a 90-gun sail and steam ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
Career
She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sweaborg on 10 August 1855. She later took part in the French Intervention in Mexico as a troop ship.
Put in ordinary in 1864, she was hulked in Cherbourg in 1871 to serve as a prison for survivors of the Paris Commune. Struck the next year, she was renamed to Nestor and eventually broken up in 1878.
References
French ship Tourville (1853) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA