French ship Prince Jérôme

History
1/75th-scale model of Prince Jérôme, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
France
Name:	Annibal (1827); Prince Jérôme (1854); Hoche (1870); Loire (1872)
Namesake:	Hannibal Barca; Jérôme Bonaparte; Lazare Hoche; Loire
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hercule class
Displacement:	4440 tonnes
Length:	62.50
Beam:	16.20
Draught:	8.23
Sail plan:	3150 m² of sails
Complement:	955 men
Armament:	100 guns, including: 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck) 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck) 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck) 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
Armour:	timber

Prince Jérôme was a late ship of the line of the French Navy. Started in 1827 as the Hercule-class Hannibal, she was abandoned for nearly thirty years before being completed under the Second French Empire as a steam-powered ship of the line, under the name Prince Jérôme. Obsolete at the rise of the French Third Republic, she was renamed Hoche and struck shortly after. She was recommissioned in 1872 as a transport under the name Loire, and ended her career in 1885 as a hulk in Saigon.

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Bibliography

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 403. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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