French aviso Latouche-Tréville

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Latouche-Tréville.

The Latouche-Tréville was a wooden-hulled steam sloop aviso of the French Navy, a sistership to the D'Estaing. They were designed by Louis Dutard for both service on foreign stations and for various duties in home waters (including fishery protection).

Portrait of Latouche-Tréville. Photp by Marius Bar
History
France
Name	Latouche-Tréville
Namesake	Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville
Ordered	3 August 1857
Builder	Toulon Dockyard
Laid down	June 1858
Launched	16 February 1860
Completed	May 1860
Commissioned	7 May 1860
Stricken	5 June 1886
Fate	Broken up 1887
General characteristics
Class and type	Steamer aviso
Displacement	695 tonnes (684 long tons)
Length	53 m (174 ft) waterline
Beam	8.32 m (27.3 ft)
Draught	3.76 m (12.3 ft)
Propulsion	steam engine, 150 hp (110 kW)
Complement	65 men in 1860, 88 from 1879
Armament	two x 16mm 30-pounder long guns (shell) Later four 12-pounders and 14-pounders

Career

After her commissioning, Latouche-Tréville sailed to Tahiti, where she was assigned to the French naval station of the Pacific Ocean. She returned to Brest on the 27 January 1868 to be decommissioned on 23 February 1867.

She was recommissioned on the 4 October 1868. On 18 February 1869, she collided with the packet ship Prince Pierre-Bonaparte, which sank off the Hyères Islands with the loss of sixteen lives. Latouche-Tréville rescued around 30 people. At the time of the collision, she was returning the body of Fuad Pasha to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She served off Terre-Neuve until 15 October 1870, when she was again decommissioned.

On 15 April 1873, she began her third commission for service in the South Atlantic. In September 1881, she took part in operations off Tunisia.

Fate

Latouche-Tréville was struck on 5 June 1886 and broken up in the following year.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Rif Winfield & Stephen Roberts. Seaforth Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.