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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=France | Ship flag= | Ship name= | Ship namesake="Thundering", Louis XIV of France | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Rochefort shipyard | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=1811 | Ship launched=1854 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1873 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed=Louis-XIV in 1828 | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=3 May 1880 | Ship reinstated=sail/steam ship in 1857. | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Broken up in 1882. | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Océan|ship of the line}} | Ship type= | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=2,700 tonnes | Ship tons burthen= | 65.18|m|abbr=on}} (196.6 French feet) | 16.24|m|abbr=on}} (50 French feet) | Ship height= | 8.12|m|abbr=on}} (25 French feet) | Ship draft= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | 3,265|m2|ft2|abbr=on|0}} | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=1,079 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=* Rated as 120-gun:- lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns
- middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns
- upper deck: 34 18-pounder guns
- forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades
| Ship armour= Timber | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | Louis XIV was an {{sclass-|Océan|ship of the line|0}} 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Laid down as Tonnant in 1811 at Rochefort, she was renamed Louis-XIV in 1828, still on keel. She was launched only in 1854, and was put in the reserve the next year. On 28 January 1855, she departed Toulon to take part in the Siege of Sevastopol as a transport ship. From September 1856 to 1857, she was converted to combined sail/steam propulsion in Brest harbour, using machinery supplied by Robert Napier of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857. Louis XIV was decommissioned between 1858 and 1861, and was affected to the École Navale as a gunnery training ship from 1861 to 1865. That year, she was sent to Toulon. In 1870, her crew was sent to Paris to defend the city against the advancing Prussian armies. Training resumed in November 1870. In 1873, Louis XIV was decommissioned again. She was struck on 3 May 1880, and sold for scrap in 1882. External links - [https://web.archive.org/web/20071015100732/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V1.html 110/130-gun ships-of-the-line], including a photograph
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