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French ship Turenne (1854)

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Name
  
Turenne

Struck
  
25 November 1867

Class and type
  
Hercule class

Launched
  
15 April 1854

Displacement
  
4.44 million kg

Laid down
  
13 June 1827

Fate
  
Scrapped

Construction started
  
13 June 1827

Weight
  
4,440 tons

Builder
  
Rochefort

French ship Turenne (1854)

Namesake
  
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne

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

Service history

Soon after her commissioning, Turenne was used as a troopship in the Crimean War. Transformed into a steam and sail ship in 1858 and 1859, she conducted trials in 1860 and served during the French intervention in Mexico.

Put in ordinary from 1862, she was decommissioned in 1867 and used as a coaling hulk in Brest from 1869. She was eventually broken up around 1887.

References

French ship Turenne (1854) Wikipedia