Ville de Paris (ship, 1851)
 The Ville de Paris (around 1854)
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The Ville de Paris ( French for the city of Paris ) was a 1st rank ship of the line of the French Navy equipped with 118 cannons . The ship was laid down in 1807, launched in 1850 and entered service for the first time in 1851. It served as the French flagship during the Crimean War . After a renovation, it was put into service as a steam-powered battleship in 1858, as a transport ship in 1870 and scrapped in 1898.
history
construction
On June 13, 1807, the three-decker Marengo was laid in Rochefort . However, construction work was suspended from July 24, 1807 to 1847. The name of the unfinished ship was changed to Comte d'Artois in 1814 , to Ville de Vienne during the reign of the Hundred Days in 1815 , to Comte d'Artois again after its end, and to Ville de Paris on August 9, 1830 . The launch took place on October 5, 1850, the commissioning on July 25, 1851. Via Cadiz and Naples , the ship moved to its future squadron in Toulon .
Use in the Crimean War
The Ville de Paris left Toulon on March 23, 1853 to take part in the Crimean War as the flagship of the French 1st Squadron. During the lengthy journey, the Napoleon III. appointed Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin to command the troop expedition.
In November 1853 the Bosphorus was reached and the following year the Ville de Paris was active in the Black Sea . Tasks were to block the sea routes and to secure and supply the army advancing ashore. In April, the Ville de Paris directed the bombardment of Odessa . Due to a cholera epidemic , the ships in the fleet were quarantined in the summer of 1854 . The Ville de Paris lost 140 men to the disease. In September the fleet shipped a 60,000-strong force from Varna to Crimea . The steamships served the sailing ships as tugs . In October Hamelin directed the bombardment of Sevastopol from the Ville de Paris . The ship came under heavy fire and lost 47 men. On November 14th, the ship lost the rudder in a storm , was released as a flagship and was initially towed to Constantinople for repairs .
The squadron of Vice Admiral Penaud with the ships Ville de Paris , Algésiras and Gloire . (Excerpt from: Louis Le Breton , témoin des marines du XIXème siècle)
A Russian grenade struck the French flagship Ville de Paris during the bombing of Sevastopol in the Crimean War in 1854 (excerpt from: "La flotte des alliés attaque et demolit les forts extérieurs de Sébastopol (18 Octobre 1854)")
Another fate
The Ville de Paris came back to Toulon on March 28, 1855 and then served in the Mediterranean Squadron.
From July 1857 until it was launched again in May 1858, the ship was extended by 5.47 m. It received a 1581 hp steam engine made by FCM . The Ville de Paris, propelled by a single screw , could make a speed of 10.6 knots under steam . The coal bunkers held 450 t. The armament was modernized and the ship was put back into service on August 1, 1858 in Toulon. It was in squadron service until 1865.
After the expansion of its machine, the Ville de Paris was converted into a troop transport in 1870. The ship, which was struck from the register of ships on February 7, 1882, served as a floating barracks for 500 men of the 4th Marine Infantry Regiment in Toulon until 1898 . From February 2, 1898, the Ville de Paris in La Seyne-sur-Mer was scrapped.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ville de Paris . In: dossiersmarine.org (ed.): La flotte de Napoléon III. Vaisseaux de 118 canons . ( dossiersmarine.org [accessed July 24, 2017]).