French ship Breslaw (1848)

Breslaw 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.

1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Breslaw's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name: Breslaw
Namesake: Wrocław
Builder: Brest [1]
Laid down: 26 May 1827 [1]
Launched: 21 July 1848 [1]
Stricken: 22 July 1872 [1]
Fate: Scrapped 1886
General characteristics
Class and type: Suffren-class ship of the line
Displacement: 4070 tonnes
Length: 60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam: 16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught: 7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion: 3,114 m2 (33,520 sq ft) of sails
Complement: 810 to 846 men
Armament:
Armour: 6.97 cm of timber

Career

Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1839. She took part in the Crimean War as a troop ship, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.[1]

She was used as a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune, then as an ammunition store, and was eventually broken up in 1886.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. Roche, vol.1, p.85

    References

    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 85. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
    • 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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