French ship Turenne (1854)

History
1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Turenne 's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
France
Name:	Turenne^[1]
Namesake:	Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
Builder:	Rochefort ^[1]
Laid down:	13 June 1827 ^[1]
Launched:	15 April 1854 ^[1]
Struck:	25 November 1867 ^[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:	100 guns, including: 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck) 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck) 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck) 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
Armour:	timber

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

Service history

Soon after her commissioning, Turenne was used as a troopship in the Crimean War. Transformed into a steam and sail ship in 1858 and 1859, she conducted trials in 1860 and served during the French intervention in Mexico. ^[1]

Put in ordinary from 1862, she was decommissioned in 1867 and used as a coaling hulk in Brest from 1869. She was eventually broken up around 1887. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roche, vol.1, p.450

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 450. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
100-guns ships of the line

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