French ship Tilsitt (1854)
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Tilsitt's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine | |
History | |
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France | |
Name: | Tilsitt |
Namesake: | Treaties of Tilsit |
Builder: | Cherbourg [1] |
Laid down: | 2 March 1832 [1] |
Launched: | 30 March 1854 [1] |
Struck: | 22 July 1872 [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 Tilsitt was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the second ship in French service named in honour of the Treaties of Tilsit.
Career
Started as Diadème, Tilsitt was transformed into a steam and sail ship of the line while still on keel. She took part in the Crimean War and in the French intervention in Mexico before becoming a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune.[1]
From 1873, she replaced Fleurus as the hulk serving as headquarters to the French naval division of Indochina in Saigon.[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. 439. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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