French ship Ville de Lyon (1861)

History
France
Name:	Ville de Lyon
Namesake:	Lyon
Builder:	Brest[1]
Laid down:	30 March 1855[1]
Launched:	26 February 1861 [1]
Decommissioned:	28 June 1883 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line
Displacement:	5150 tonnes
Length:	71.7 metres (235 ft)
Beam:	16.8 metres (55 ft 1 in)
Draught:	8.0 metres (26.2 ft)
Propulsion:	Up to 2,730 m^2 (29,400 sq ft) of sails Mangin steam engine, one propeller
Crew:	490
Armament:	14 × 30-pounder riffled guns 48 × 30-pounder smooth-bore guns 16 × 24-pounder howitzers
Armour:	Timber

Ville de Lyon was a Ville de Nantes-class 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ville de Lyon conducted trials in 1861 before being put in ordinary in 1862. She took part in the French intervention in Mexico, and upon her return to France, became a schoolship in Brest. She returned to Mexico in 1866 to ferry an infantry regiment back to France.

After the Paris Commune, Ville de Lyon was used as a prison hulk in Brest. Struck in 1879, she was broken up in 1894. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.469

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 469. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.