Ville de Nantes-class ship of the line

	Launching of Ville de Nantes, by Louis Le Breton
Class overview
Name	Ville de Nantes
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Algésiras-class ship of the line
Built	1854–1861
In service	1860–1894
In commission	1860–1879
Completed	3
General characteristics (as built)
Type	90-gun ship of the line
Displacement	5,121 t (5,040 long tons)
Length	71.23–71.76 m (233 ft 8 in – 235 ft 5 in) (waterline)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Draught	8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load)
Depth of hold	8.16 m (26 ft 9 in)
Installed power	8 boilers; 3,600 PS (2,600 kW)
Propulsion	1 screw; 2 steam engines
Sail plan	Ship rigged
Speed	11–12 knots (20–22 km/h; 13–14 mph)
Complement	913
Armament	(Ville de Nantes, 1863) ; Lower gundeck: 24 × 30 pdr cannon; 10 × 163 mm (6.4 in) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns; Upper gundeck: 24 × 30 pdr cannon; 10 × 223.3 mm (8.8 in) Paixhans guns; Quarterdeck and forecastle: 6 × 163 mm Paixhans guns; 4 × 163 mm RML guns;

The Ville de Nantes class consisted of three second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ships of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s. Most of the ships participated in the Second French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s and spent extensive amounts of time in reserve. In 1871–1872 the sister ships were used as prison ships after the Paris Commune was crushed by the French government in 1871.

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