French ship Saint Louis (1854)

The Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name:	Saint Louis
Namesake:	Louis IX of France
Builder:	Brest [1]
Laid down:	13 July 1848 [1]
Launched:	26 April 1853 [1]
In service:	8 April 1854[1]
Stricken:	26 November 1894 [1]
Fate:	Scrapped 1895
General characteristics
Class and type:	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement:	4 070 tonnes
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

Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1850. She took part in the Crimean War as a troopship,[1] In July 1854, she ran aground at Kiel, Prussia. She was refloated on 26 July.[2] She bombed the Tétouan forts on 20 November 1859, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.[1]

She was renamed Cacique in 1881 and served as a gunnery school, and was eventually broken up in 1895.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.397
2. "Prussia". The Times (21813). London. 7 August 1854. col D-E, p. 7.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 397. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line