French aviso Latouche-Tréville

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

Latouche-Tréville Portrait of Latouche-Tréville 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
Out of service:	Stricken 5 June 1886.
Struck:	5 June 1886
General characteristics
Class & 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

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).

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, and 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.

References

• Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870–2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005.
• 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.