- Service history
- Notes and references Notes References Bibliography External links
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Hercule class | Ship type= | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=4440 tonnes | Ship tons burthen= | Ship length=62.50 | Ship beam=16.20 | Ship height= | Ship draught=8.23 | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship sail plan=3150 m² of sails | Ship speed= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=955 men | Ship armament=*100 guns, including:- 32 × 30-pounder long guns (lower deck)
- 30 × 30-pounder short guns (upper deck)
- 30 30-pounder carronades (open deck)
- 4 × 18-pounder long guns (open deck)
| Ship armour=timber | Ship notes=
}} | Prince Jérôme was a late ship of the line of the French Navy. Started in 1827 as the Hercule-class Hannibal, she was abandoned for nearly thirty years before being completed under the Second French Empire as a steam-powered ship of the line, under the name Prince Jérôme. Obsolete at the rise of the French Third Republic, she was renamed Hoche and struck shortly after. She was recommissioned in 1872 as a transport under the name Loire, and ended her career in 1885 as a hulk in Saigon. Service history{{Empty section|date=August 2015}}Notes and references Notes References{{Reflist|30em}} Bibliography - {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1|page=403}}
External links {{commons category|Prince Jérôme (Ship, 1854)}}- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071113200943/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V5.html 100-guns ships of the line]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160412194334/http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/fs_v_V5a.html Loire (ex-Hoche, ex-Prince Jérôme, ex-Annibal)]
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