French ship Saint Louis (1854)
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 |
| 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: |
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| Armour: | 6.97 cm of timber |
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.
Career
Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1850. She took part in the Crimean War as a troopship, 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
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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