French ship Eylau (1856)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Eylau.

File:Eylau-Marius Bar.jpg The Eylau as a hulk in Toulon (foreground)
Career (France)
Name:	Eylau
Namesake:	Battle of Eylau
Laid down:	5 July 1853
Launched:	15 May 1856
Commissioned:	8 March 1857
Struck:	22 February 1877
General characteristics
Type:	Hercule class, converted fast screw ship of the line
Length:	68.72 metres
Beam:	16.80 metres
Depth of hold:	8.16 metres
Propulsion:	Sail 900 shp steam engine (Cavé). 4 cylinders
Complement:	913
Armament:	GD 18-36p, 16-22cm No.1 shell; UD 34-30p No.2; SD 2-16cm rifles, 20-30p No.4. 18 x 36-pounders 16 x 22 cm howitzers 34 x 30-pounders 2 x 16 cm rifled howitzers 20 x 30-pounders

The Eylau was an converted fast screw ship of the line of the French Navy.

Started as a 100-gun Hercule class ship of the line, Eylau was ordered converted to mixed propulsion in 1852, even before her keel was laid.

She was used as a hulk in Toulon, and broken up in 1905.

References

• Converted fast screw ship of the line (2nd class)
• Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I