Louis XIV was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Engraving by Lebreton showing Louis XIV as a naval school
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| History | |
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| Namesake | "Thundering", Louis XIV of France |
| Builder | Rochefort shipyard |
| Laid down | 1811 |
| Launched | 28 February 1854 |
| Decommissioned | 1873 |
| Renamed | Louis-XIV in 1828 |
| Stricken | 3 May 1880 |
| Reinstated | sail/steam ship in 1857. |
| Fate | Broken up in 1882. |
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| Class and type | Océan-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 5,095 tonnes |
| Tons burthen | 2,700 tonnes |
| Length | 65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196.6 French feet) |
| Beam | 16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet) |
| Draught | 8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet) |
| Propulsion | sail, 3,265 m2 (35,144 sq ft) |
| Complement | 1,079 |
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Laid down as Tonnant in 1811 at Rochefort, she was renamed Louis-XIV in 1828, still on keel. She was launched only in 1854, and was put in the reserve the next year.
On 28 January 1855, she departed Toulon to take part in the Siege of Sevastopol as a transport ship. From September 1856 to 1857, she was converted to combined sail/steam propulsion in Brest harbour, using machinery supplied by Robert Napier of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857.
Louis XIV was decommissioned between 1858 and 1861, and was affected to the École Navale as a gunnery training ship from 1861 to 1865. That year, she was sent to Toulon. In 1870, her crew was sent to Paris to defend the city against the advancing Prussian armies. Training resumed in November 1870.
In 1873, Louis XIV was decommissioned again. She was struck on 3 May 1880, and sold for scrap in 1882.
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Louis XIV nearing completion -
Engraving of the launch -
Louis XIV in the roads of Brest in 1865, after conversion to a steam ship of the line. Photograph by Jules Maréchal.
Bibliography edit
- Jones, Colin (1996). "Entente Cordiale, 1865". In McLean, David & Preston, Antony (eds.). Warship 1996. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-685-X.
External links edit
Media related to Louis-XIV (ship, 1854) at Wikimedia Commons- 110/130-gun ships-of-the-line, including a photograph
