French ship Tilsitt (1854)

The Tilsitt was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the second ship in French service named in honour of the Treaties of Tilsit.

1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Tilsitt's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name:	Tilsitt
Namesake:	Treaties of Tilsit
Builder:	Cherbourg [1]
Laid down:	2 March 1832 [1]
Launched:	30 March 1854 [1]
Stricken:	22 July 1872 [1]
Fate:	Scrapped
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 Diadème, Tilsitt was transformed into a steam and sail ship of the line while still on keel. She took part in the Crimean War and in the French intervention in Mexico before becoming a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune.[1]

From 1873, she replaced Fleurus as the hulk serving as headquarters to the French naval division of Indochina in Saigon.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.439

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 439. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line