French ship Bayard (1847)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Bayard.

The Bayard was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the first ship in French service named in honour of Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard.

1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Bayard's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Bayard
Namesake	Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
Builder	Lorient [1]
Laid down	1 July 1823 [1]
Launched	28 August 1847 [1]
Stricken	20 June 1872 [1]
Fate	Scrapped 1879
General characteristics
Class & type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4,070 tonneaux
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	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

Career

Bayard at Sebastopol, during the first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England on 17 October 1854

Bayard took part in the Crimean War in the Black Sea in 1854 and 1855, notably taking part in the Siege of Sevastopol by shelling the city on 17 October 1854. She suffered serious damage in the storm of 14 November, and returned to France to be place in ordinary.^[1]

In 1858, she was transformed into a steam and sail ship in Cherbourg, carrying out her first engine trials in 1860. The next year, she again suffered severe damage in a storm in the Strait of Magellan.^[1]

In 1866, she was used as a troopship to return the expeditionary corps back to France after the French intervention in Mexico. From 1871, she was used as a prison hulk in Cherbourg for prisoners from the Paris Commune. Struck on 20 June 1872, she was renamed Triton and eventually broken up in 1879.^[1]