French ship Ville-de-Paris (1850)
The Ville de Paris circa 1854
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| Builder: | Rochefort shipyard |
| Laid down: | 13 June 1807 |
| Launched: | 5 October 1850 |
| Commissioned: | 25 July 1851 |
| Reclassified: | May 1858 |
| Struck: | 7 February 1882 |
| Reinstated: | 1 October 1858 |
| Fate: | Broken up |
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| Class and type: | Océan class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 5 302 tonnes |
| Length: | 65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet) |
| Beam: | 16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet) |
| Draught: | 8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet) |
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| Speed: | 10.6 knots (19.6 km/h; 12.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 1 079 men |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Ville de Paris was an Océan class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Her keeled was in Rochefort in 1807 as Marengo. During her construction, she was renamed Ville de Vienne, Comte d'Artois during the Bourbon Restoration, Ville de Vienne again briefly during the Hundred Days and back to Comte d'Artois thereafter. On 9 October 1830, following the July Revolution, she took her name of Ville de Paris. She was finally launched on 5 October 1850.
In 1851, she rejoined Toulon where she served as flagship of the squadron, under captain Penaud.
On 23 March 1853, she departed Toulon for Greece, leading the First squadron of vice-admiral Régnault de La Susse. She arrived at Athens in March 1853, where La Susse was relieved, and joined with the British squadron under Admiral Dundas at Malta. In June 1853, the Allied fleet arrived at Beşik Bay. On 15 July 1853, Admiral Hamelin took over command of the French squadron. On 22 September 1853, the fleet departed for the Dardanelles, Ville de Paris in tow of the Napoléon. During the operations in the Sea of Marmara, she was towed by other steam ships.
In 1854, the squadron blockaded the Black Sea and protected the Allied lines of supply. Ville de Paris arrived at Odessa on 6 January 1854, taking Russian prisoners captured by other French units, and directing the shelling of the city on 22 March.
In late July 1854, a cholera epidemic broke out in the fleet. On 11 August, the fleet sailed in quarantine. By the end of the month, Ville de Paris had 140 dead.
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