French ship Ville de Nantes
Launching of Ville de Nantes, by Louis Le Breton | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Second French Empire | |
| Name | Ville de Nantes |
| Namesake | Nantes |
| Ordered | 3 April 1854 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
| Laid down | 20 June 1854 |
| Launched | 7 August 1858 |
| Completed | October 1860 |
| Commissioned | 25 October 1860 |
| In service | 1862 |
| Stricken | 28 November 1872 |
| Fate | Sold for Scrap, 1887 |
| General characteristics (as of 1863) | |
| Class & type | Ville de Nantes-class |
| Displacement | 5,121 t (5,040 long tons) |
| Length | 71.76 m (235 ft 5 in) (waterline) |
| Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load) |
| Depth of hold | 8.16 m (26 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power | 8 boilers; 3,600 PS (2,600 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 screw; 2 steam engines |
| Sail plan | Ship rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 913 |
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Ville de Nantes was a second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ship of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s, lead ship of her class of three ships. The ship was in reserve most of her career and served as a prison ship for Communard prisoners in 1871–1872 after the Paris Commune was crushed by the French government. She was sold for scrap in 1887.