French ship Saint Louis (1854)

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

The Saint Louis 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.

1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Saint Louis's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Saint Louis
Namesake	Louis IX of France
Builder	Brest [1]
Laid down	13 July 1848 [1]
Launched	26 April 1853 [1]
In service	8 April 1854[1]
Stricken	26 November 1894 [1]
Fate	Scrapped 1895
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4 070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m² 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

Career

Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1850. She took part in the Crimean War as a troopship,^[1] In July 1854, she ran aground at Kiel, Prussia. She was refloated on 26 July.^[2] She bombed the Tétouan forts on 20 November 1859, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.^[1]

She was renamed Cacique in 1881 and served as a gunnery school, and was eventually broken up in 1895.^[1]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.397
2. "Prussia". The Times. No. 21813. London. 7 August 1854. col D-E, p. 7.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 397. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• 90-guns ships-of-the-line