French ship Ulm (1854)
![]() 1/40th-scale model of the 100-gun Hercule, lead ship of Ulm ' class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine.
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Name | Ulm[1] |
Namesake | Battle of Ulm |
Builder | Rochefort [1] |
Laid down | 13 July 1825 [1] |
Launched | 13 May 1854 [1] |
Stricken | 25 November 1867 [1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1890 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hercule class |
Displacement | 4,440 tonnes |
Length | 62.50 |
Beam | 16.20 |
Draught | 8.23 |
Sail plan | 3,150 m2 of sails |
Complement | 955 men |
Armament |
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Armour | timber |
Ulm was a 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was transformed into a steam and sail ship while on keel and launched as an 82-gun ship.
Service history
[edit]Ordered as Lys under the absolute monarchy of Charles X, the ship, still under construction, was renamed Ulm on 9 August 1830, following the July Revolution. She was transformed into a sail and steam ship, receiving an Indret engine, and was eventually launched in 1854.[1]
She served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War and took part in the Battle of Kinburn.[1] From July 1857, she was part of the squadron of Toulon. She transferred to Brest in 1860 for engine trials, and to Cherbourg in June 1862.[2]
From September 1862,[2] she served in the French intervention in Mexico.[1] She returned to Brest on 3 January 1863.[2]
Struck in 1867, she was used as a coaling hulk in Brest before being eventually broken up in 1890.[1]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 266. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 100-guns ships of the line