French ship Friedland (1840)

Ship of the line of the French Navy For other ships with the same name, see French ship Friedland and French ship Inflexible.

History
Friedland in tow of a steamer, after she ran aground near Constantinople
France
Name	Friedland
Namesake	Battle of Friedland
Builder	Cherbourg
Laid down	1 May 1812
Launched	4 March 1840
Commissioned	5 October 1840
Stricken	31 December 1864
Fate	Broken up 1879
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement	5,302 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213 ft 10 in) (196,6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53 ft 3 in) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26 ft 8 in) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail, 3,265 m (35,140 sq ft) one-shaft steam engine, 1,581 shp (1,179 kW)
Speed	10.6 knots (19.6 km/h; 12.2 mph)
Complement	1,079
Armament	Rated as 120-gun: lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades

Friedland was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Her keel was laid down in Cherbourg in 1812 as Inflexibe. During her construction, she was renamed Friedland, Duc de Bordeaux during the Bourbon Restoration, Friedland again briefly during the Hundred Days and back to Duc de Bordeaux thereafter. On 9 October 1830, following the July Revolution, she took her name of Friedland. She was finally launched on 4 March 1840.

She was decommissioned from 1852 to 1853, when she took back service and served in the Crimean War. On 27 July 1853, she ran aground off the Rabbit Islands, Ottoman Empire. She was later refloated. In 1857, work was undertaken to convert her to a steam and sail ship, but the conversion was aborted in February 1858 and the engine was eventually installed on Turenne.

From March 1865, she was used as barracks hulk in Toulon, as Colosse. She was broken up in 1879.

Citations

^ Roche, vol.1, p.215
"(untitled)". The Morning Chronicle. No. 27032 (Second ed.). London. 13 August 1853.
Winfield p.48

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 215. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
(in French) Le Friedland, son nom, son lancement (1840)

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