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French ship Tourville (1853)

Tourville was a 90-gun sail and steam ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

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, ships L-R; Orion; Du Quesne; Royal George; and Tourville, Flag Ship of Admiral Pénaud. Illustrated London News 1855 She took part in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War, shelling Sveaborg on 10 August 1855. compelling the Argo to put in for repairs at Constantinople. She was hulked in Cherbourg in 1871 to serve as a prison for survivors of the Paris Commune. Struck the next year, she was renamed to Nestor and eventually broken up in 1878. ==Citations==
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