French ship Breslaw (1848)

	1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Breslaw's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Breslaw
Namesake	Wrocław
Builder	Brest
Laid down	26 May 1827
Launched	21 July 1848
Stricken	22 July 1872
Fate	Scrapped 1886
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren-class ship of the line
Displacement	4070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3,114 m2 (33,520 sq ft) of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

Breslaw was a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the twenty-second ship in French service named in honour of Louis IX of France.

Career

Started as Achille, the ship was renamed Saint Louis in 1839. She took part in the Crimean War as a troop ship, and served in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.^[1]

She was used as a prison hulk for prisoners of the Paris Commune, then as an ammunition store, and was eventually broken up in 1886.^[1]

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. JMR. Jean-Michel Roche. p. 85. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.