French ship Fleurus (1853)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Dauphin Royal.
1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Fleurus ' class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
History
France
Name: Fleurus[1]
Namesake: Battle of Ligny, also known as Battle of Fleurus
Builder: Toulon [1]
Laid down: April 1825 [1]
Launched: 2 December 1853 [1]
In service: 1855 [1]
Struck: 17 August 1869 [1]
Fate: Scrapped
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

Fleurus was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy, transformed into a Sail and Steam ship.

Service history

Ordered in 1825 as Brianée and soon renamed Dauphin Royal, Fleurus was laid down in 1825 but not completed before 1855. She took her definitive name after the July Revolution, on 9 August 1830. [1]

From January 1855, she conducted her engine trials. She proceeded to the Black Sea to take part in the Crimean War. In 1862, she served as a troopship for the French intervention in Mexico. [1]

She finished her career as a hulk in Saigon, headquarters to the French naval division of Indochina. [1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Roche, vol.1, p.204

    References

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