French ship Eylau (1856)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Eylau and French ship Éole.
Eylau was ordered as one of fourteen second-rank, 100-gun sailing Hercule-class ship of the line for the French Navy, but was converted to a 90-gun steam-powered ship in the 1850s while under construction. Completed in 1857 the ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and the initial stages of the Second French intervention in Mexico before she was converted into a troopship in 1862 or 1863. Eylau was hulked in 1877 and served as a barracks ship until she was scrapped in 1905.
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Second French Empire | |
Name | Eylau |
Namesake | Battle of Eylau |
Ordered | Early 1830s as sailing ship Éole, re-ordered 13 November 1852 as steam-powered ship |
Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
Laid down | August 1833 |
Launched | 15 May 1856 |
Commissioned | 8 March 1857 |
Decommissioned | 25 February 1865 |
Renamed | Eylau, 23 November 1839 |
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Stricken | 22 February 1877 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1905 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Hercule-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 5,023 t (4,944 long tons) |
Length | 68.72 m (225 ft 6 in) (waterline) |
Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 8.16 m (26 ft 9 in) (full load) |
Depth of hold | 8.07 m (26 ft 6 in) |
Installed power | 3,600 PS (2,600 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 steam engines |
Sail plan | Ship rigged |
Complement | 913 |
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