French ship Friedland (1840)

	Friedland in tow of a steamer, after she ran aground near Constantinople
History
France
Name:	Friedland[1]
Namesake:	Battle of Friedland
Builder:	Cherbourg[1]
Laid down:	1 May 1812[1]
Launched:	4 March 1840[1]
Commissioned:	5 October 1840[1]
Stricken:	31 December 1864[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement:	5,302 tonnes
Length:	65.18 m (213 ft 10 in) (196,6 French feet)
Beam:	16.24 m (53 ft 3 in) (50 French feet)
Draught:	8.12 m (26 ft 8 in) (25 French feet)
Propulsion:	sail, 3,265 m2 (35,140 sq ft); one-shaft steam engine, 1,581 shp (1,179 kW);
Speed:	10.6 knots (19.6 km/h; 12.2 mph)
Complement:	1,079
Armament:	Rated as 120-gun:; lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns; middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns; upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns; forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades;

Friedland was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Launch of Friedland, by Antoine Chazal.

Her keel was laid down in Cherbourg in 1812 as Inflexibe. During her construction, she was renamed Friedland, Duc de Bordeaux during the Bourbon Restoration, Friedland again briefly during the Hundred Days and back to Duc de Bordeaux thereafter. On 9 October 1830, following the July Revolution, she took her name of Friedland. She was finally launched on 4 March 1840.[1]

She was decommissioned from 1852 to 1853, when she took back service and served in the Crimean war.[1] On 27 July 1853, she ran aground off the Rabbit Islands, Ottoman Empire.[2] She was later refloated. In 1857, work was undertaken to convert her to a steam and sail ship, but the conversion was aborted in February 1858 and the engine was eventually installed on Turenne.[1]

From March 1865, she was used as barracks hulk in Toulon, as Colosse.[1]

Sources and references

References

Roche, vol.1, p.215
"(untitled)". The Morning Chronicle (27032) (Second ed.). London. 13 August 1853.

Bibliography

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 215. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
(in French) Le Friedland, son nom, son lancement (1840)

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[roche215-1] Roche, vol.1, p.215

[MC130853-2] "(untitled)". The Morning Chronicle (27032) (Second ed.). London. 13 August 1853.