Name Ville de Bordeaux Builder Lorient Decommissioned 14 January 1879 Length 72 m Draft 8 m | Namesake Bordeaux Laid down 26 June June 1854 Launched 21 May 1860 Weight 5,150 tons | |
Class and type Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line | ||
Ville de Bordeaux was a Ville de Nantes-class 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ville de Bordeaux conducted trials in 1861 before being put in ordinary. Reactivated under Captain Delangle de Cary in 1862 for the French intervention in Mexico, she served for three years before returning to the ordinary. She was reactivated again, this time under Commander Mer, to bring back the French troops in Mexico back to France.
After the Paris Commune, Ville de Bordeaux was used as a prison hulk in Brest. In January 1880, she was renamed Bretagne and replaced Bretagne as a boys' schoolship, role which retained until 1894, when Fontenoy, also renamed Bretagne, took her place.
References
French ship Ville de Bordeaux (1860) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA