French ship Saint Louis (1854)

The Saint Louis 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.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Saint Louis and French ship Achille.
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Saint Louis's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name: Saint Louis
Namesake: Louis IX of France
Builder: Brest [1]
Laid down: 13 July 1848 [1]
Launched: 26 April 1853 [1]
In service: 8 April 1854[1]
Struck: 26 November 1894 [1]
Fate: Scrapped 1895
General characteristics
Class and type: Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement: 4 070 tonnes
Length: 60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam: 16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught: 7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion: 3114 m² 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 1850. She took part in the Crimean War as a troopship,[1] In July 1854, she ran aground at Kiel, Prussia. She was refloated on 26 July.[2] She bombed the Tétouan forts on 20 November 1859, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.[1]

She was renamed Cacique in 1881 and served as a gunnery school, and was eventually broken up in 1895.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations
    1. Roche, vol.1, p.397
    2. "Prussia". The Times (21813). London. 7 August 1854. col D-E, p. 7.

    References
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 397. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
    • 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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