The Bretagne, painting by Jules Achille Noël, National Maritime Museum, London.
Career (France)
Builder:	Brest arsenal
Laid down:	January 1853
Launched:	17 February 1855
Commissioned:	1855
In service:	1855
Struck:	1879
Fate:	Scrapped 1880
General characteristics
Displacement:	5289 tonnes, 6875 tonnes full charge
Length:	81 metres (at the water line)
Beam:	18.08 metres
Draught:	8.56 m
Propulsion:	Indret steam engine, 8 boilers, 4800 shp, 1 propeler
Speed:	12.6 knots
Boats and landing craft carried:	1 13 metre boat, one 11.5 metre boat, 4 10.5 metre boats, 1 8 metre boat, 4 whaleboat, 2 dinghies
Capacity:	up to 1800 passengers
Complement:	1170 men
Armament:	Original: 130 guns lower battery : 18x "canon de 36" (43lb shot), 18x 80pdr shell gun (223mm shell) middle battery : 18x 30pdr (164mm shot), 18x 80pdr shell gun upper battery : 38x 30pdr forecastle : 2x "canon de 50" (56lb shot), 18x 30pdr carronades (164mm shot) in 1869 : lower battery: 2 190mm rifled guns canons rayés de 19 cm middle battery: 16 gun 30 n°2, 4 160cm rifled guns canons rayés (mod. 1864), 8 160mm rifled guns (mod. 1860 and 1862), 2 160mm muzzle-loading rifled guns, 2 140mm guns Bridge: 2 120mm bronze guns
Armour:	timber

The Bretagne was a fast 130-gun three-decker of the French Navy, designed by engineer Marielle. She was built after the Napoléon, and was fitted with a steam engine while under construction, though she had been laid down as a sail ship.

She took part in the Crimean War in 1854 and 1855.

From 1866, she was used as barracks. She was renamed to Ville de Bordeaux in 1880. She was scrapped the same year.

The Bretagne used as cadet school ship

[edit] External links

• Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I
• Bretagne