French ship Saint Louis (1854)

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:	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
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

1. Roche, vol.1, p.397

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