French frigate Guerrière (1860)

Guerrière in Nagasaki harbour, 1865.
History
France
Name: Guerrière
Namesake: "Warrior"
Builder: Brest
Laid down: 8 June 1848[1]
Launched: 3 May 1860[1]
Decommissioned: 28 May 1888[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: 56-gun frigate
Tons burthen: 3600 tons
Propulsion:
  • Sails
  • 2400 shp Creuzot steam engine, 1 retractacle propeller
Complement: 475 men (230 if armed en flûte)
Armament: 34 guns

Guerrière was a sail and steam frigate of the French Navy. She is known as the flagship of Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.

Career

Built as a 56-gun sail frigate on a design by Boucher and Masson, Guerrière was transformed by Jumboisation of steam engine section in October 1866. As such, under Captain Olivier, she became Pierre-Gustave Roze's flagship during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.[1]

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German was prisoners after the Franco-Prussian War. The next year, under Commander Charles Boucarut, she transported prisoners of the Paris Commune sentenced to deportation to New Caledonia.[1]

In the following years, she shuttled between France and Algeria before being hulked in 1889 and broken up around 1913.[1]

A model of Guerrière is on display at the Musée national de la Marine, inside a dry dock.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
    Citations
    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.234
    References
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