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Ship of the line of the French Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Breslaw 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.
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Breslaw's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Breslaw |
Namesake | Wrocław |
Builder | Brest [1] |
Laid down | 26 May 1827 [1] |
Launched | 21 July 1848 [1] |
Stricken | 22 July 1872 [1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1886 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Suffren-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 4070 tonnes |
Length | 60.50 m (198.5 ft) |
Beam | 16.28 m (53.4 ft) |
Draught | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Propulsion | 3,114 m2 (33,520 sq ft) of sails |
Complement | 810 to 846 men |
Armament |
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Armour | 6.97 cm of timber |
Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1839. She took part in the Crimean War as a troop ship, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.[1]
She was used as a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune, then as an ammunition store, and was eventually broken up in 1886.[1]
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