French frigate Guerrière (1860)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Guerrière.

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

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	Dryade-class frigate
Tons burthen	3,600 tons
Propulsion	Sails 2,400 shp (1,800 kW) Creuzot steam engine, 1 retractable propeller
Complement	475 men (230 if armed en flûte)
Armament	34 guns

Career

Built as a 56-gun sail frigate on a design by Boucher and Masson, Guerrière was transformed by jumboisation of the 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] On 30 August 1867, Guerrière was severely damaged in a typhoon in the South China Sea whilst on a voyage from Japan to Hong Kong, China.^[2]

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German war 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.

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  Guerrière as a hulk, photographed by Marius Bar around 1900
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  1/48 scale model of dry dock n°1 of Toulon harbour, with the model of Guerrière placed inside by order of Admiral Pâris.