French ship Latouche-Tréville

French ship Latouche-Tréville

Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name "Latouche-Tréville" in honour of the 19th century politician and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.

* a wooden propeller aviso (1860-1886). From 1860 to 1867 she was affacted to the division of the Pacific Ocean in Tahiti. She returned to Brest on the 27 January 1868 to be decommissioned on 23 February. The was recommissioned on the 4 October 1868, and served in Terre-Neuve before being decommissioned on the 15 October 1870. She entered active service again on the 15 April 1873 to serve in the South Atlantic. She took part in the operations against Tunisia from September 1881, until she was decommissioned on the 11 February 1882. She was struck on the 1 April 1886. (695 tonnes (684 long tons); length: 53 metres; width 8.32 metres; draught 3.76 metres; Propulsion: steam engine, 150 hp; Armament: two 30-pounders, and later four 12-pounders and 14-pounders; Complement: 65 men in 1860, 88 from 1879)

* An armoured cruiser (1892-1926). Built in Le Havre by the "Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée", launched on 8 October 1892. She served in the Naval Academy, before being sent to the East during the Greco-Turkish War (1897). She was integrated to the French Mediterranean Fleet. From February, she was used to train cannoneers, before joining the reserve in 1912. She served a mission in the Middle East in December 1912, and in 1914, she was sent to Casablanca. In October, she blockaded Otranto. She operated between Bizerte and Sardigna before joining the squadron of Admiral Guépratte, and took part in the bombing of Koum Kaleh; she was particularly distinguished this day, receiving a felicitation telegramme from general Gouraud. She served two other campaigns in the Dardanella, before going to Thessaloniki. She helped blockade Greece until the end of 1918, and returned to Toulon. She was decommissioned on 26 June 1920, used as a hangar until 1925, and scrapped in 1926. (4,748 tonnes (4,990 fully loaded); Dimensions: length 110 metres, width 14 metres, draught 6.20 metres, Propulsion: 8,300 hpvague|likely metric horsepower? or converted from metric to English|date=March 2008, 2 engines, 2 propellers; Speed: convert|19|kn|km/h|0, range: convert|4000|nmi|km|-2 at convert|10|kn|km/h|0, convert|950|nmi|km|-1 at convert|18|kn|km/h|0; Armament: two 194 mm guns and six 138 mm guns in armoured turrets; four 65 mm guns; four 47 mm guns in 1886, eight in 1904; six projectors )

* The present "Latouche-Tréville" is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate (1984).


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