French ship Prince Jérôme

Prince Jérôme was a late ship of the line of the French Navy. Started in 1827 as the Hercule-class Hannibal, she was abandoned for nearly thirty years before being completed under the Second French Empire as a steam-powered ship of the line, under the name Prince Jérôme. Obsolete at the rise of the French Third Republic, she was renamed Hoche and struck shortly after. She was recommissioned in 1872 as a transport under the name Loire, and ended her career in 1885 as a hulk in Saigon.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Annibal and French ship Loire.
1/75th-scale model of Prince Jérôme, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
History
France
Name: Annibal (1827); Prince Jérôme (1854); Hoche (1870); Loire (1872)
Namesake: Hannibal Barca; Jérôme Bonaparte; Lazare Hoche; Loire
Fate: Scrapped 1885
General characteristics
Class and type: Hercule class
Displacement: 4440 tonnes
Length: 62.50
Beam: 16.20
Draught: 8.23
Sail plan: 3150 m² of sails
Complement: 955 men
Armament:
Armour: timber

Service history

On 28 July 1856, the British steamship Italian put into Lisbon, Portugal on fire and was beached. The fire was extinguished with assistance from land based fire engines and Prince Jérôme.[1][2]

Notes and references

Notes

    References
    1. "The Peninsular Mails". Daily News (3187). London. 4 August 1856.
    2. "Portugal". The Morning Chronicle (27959). London. 4 August 1856.

    Bibliography
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 403. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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