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
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:
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

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.439

    References

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