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French ship Tourville (1853)

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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

French ship Tourville (1853)

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