French ship Breslaw (1848)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Breslaw and French ship Achille.

History
1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Breslaw's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
France
Name:	Breslaw
Namesake:	Wrocław
Builder:	Brest ^[1]
Laid down:	26 May 1827 ^[1]
Launched:	21 July 1848 ^[1]
Struck:	22 July 1872 ^[1]
Fate:	Scrapped
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:	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

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.

Career

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]

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 85. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
90-guns ships-of-the-line

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