French ship Prince Jérôme

	1/75th-scale model of Prince Jérôme, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
History
France
Name	Annibal (1827); Prince Jérôme (1854); Hoche (1870); Loire (1872)
Namesake	Hannibal; Jérôme Bonaparte; Lazare Hoche; Loire
Launched	2 December 1853
Fate	Scrapped 1885
General characteristics
Class and type	Hercule class
Displacement	4440 tonnes
Length	62.50
Beam	16.20
Draught	8.23
Sail plan	3150 m² of sails
Complement	955 men
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);
Armour	timber

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.

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