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French aviso <i>Latouche-Tréville</i>

French aviso Latouche-Tréville

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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).

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Latouche-Tréville.
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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.[citation needed] 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.[1][2] 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.[3]

Citations

  1. [1]
    "Collision in the Mediterranean". Morning Post. No. 29705. London. 22 February 1869. p. 7.
  2. [2]
    "The Late Fuad Pacha". Daily News. No. 7119. London. 24 February 1869. p. 7.
  3. [3]
    Winfield & Roberts p.359

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