French frigate Guerrière (1860)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Guerrière.

Guerrière in Nagasaki harbour, 1865.
History
France
Name	Guerrière
Namesake	"Warrior"
Builder	Brest
Laid down	8 June 1848[1]
Launched	3 May 1860[1]
Decommissioned	28 May 1888[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Dryade-class frigate
Tons burthen	3,600 tons
Propulsion	Sails 2,400 shp (1,800 kW) Creuzot steam engine, 1 retractable propeller
Complement	475 men (230 if armed en flûte)
Armament	34 guns

Guerrière was a sail and steam Dryade-class frigate of the French Navy. She is known as the flagship of Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.

Career

Built as a 56-gun sail frigate on a design by Boucher and Masson, Guerrière was transformed by jumboisation of the steam engine section in October 1866. As such, under Captain Olivier, she became Pierre-Gustave Roze's flagship during the French campaign against Korea in 1866.^[1] On 30 August 1867, Guerrière was severely damaged in a typhoon in the South China Sea whilst on a voyage from Japan to Hong Kong, China.^[2]

In 1869, she was transformed into a troopship by addition of a second covered deck. In 1871, she was used to ferry German war prisoners after the Franco-Prussian War. The next year, under Commander Charles Boucarut, she transported prisoners of the Paris Commune sentenced to deportation to New Caledonia.^[1]

In the following years, she shuttled between France and Algeria before being hulked in 1889 and broken up around 1913.^[1]

A model of Guerrière is on display at the Musée national de la Marine, inside a dry dock.

• 
  Guerrière as a hulk, photographed by Marius Bar around 1900
• 
  1/48 scale model of dry dock n°1 of Toulon harbour, with the model of Guerrière placed inside by order of Admiral Pâris.

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.234
2. "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard. No. 13485. London. 25 October 1867. p. 7.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 234. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.