Louis XIV was a first-rate 118-gun built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Not completed until 1854, the ship participated in the Crimean War of 1854âÂÂ1855. She was converted to steam power in 1857.
The later Océan-class ships had a length of at the gun deck a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 5095 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 2,794âÂÂ2,930 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 1,130 officers and ratings. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged with a sail area of .
The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of Louis XIV consisted of twenty-eight 30-pounder long guns and four Paixhans guns on the lower gun deck, Thirty 30-pounder short guns and four 22 cm Paixhans guns on the middle gun deck, and on the upper gun deck were thirty-four 30-pounder short guns. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of a dozen very short 30-pounder guns.
Louis XIV was laid down at the Arsenal de Rochefort in April 1811 with the name Tonnant and was renamed Louis XIV in 1828. The ship remained on the stocks until she was launched on 28 February 1854, commissioned on 24 March and completed in September. 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 & Sons of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857.
Louis XIV was decommissioned between 1858 and 1861, and was affected to the ÃÂcole 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.