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''Cassard'' was a steam corvette of the French Navy. Built as an aviso, she served as the imperial yacht ''Reine Hortense'' from 1853. == Career == Laid down as ''Comte d'Eu'', the ship was renamed to ''Patriote'' on 20 February 1848 after the French Revolution of 1848. In June 1853, she became the imperial yacht ''Reine Hortense''.〔 In 1855, she served as a troopship to ferry forces bound for the theatre of the Crimean War.〔 ''Reine Hortense'' ferried Prince Napoléon Bonaparte from Marseille to Genoa in early 1859 for his marriage to Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, and Napoléon III from Marseille to Genoa on 11 and 12 May 1859. Returned to the French Navy in 1854, she was recommissionned as the imperial yacht on 20 April 1865 for an official visit in Algeria. She was again decommissioned in October.〔 On 14 February 1867, she was renamed to ''Cassard'', and commissioned for the Algiers station. She served there until 1881, when she was decommissioned in Toulon before becoming a littoral defence ship.〔 Renamed to ''Faune'' in 1893, she was used as a hulk in Port-Vendre. She was eventually broken up in 1920.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French ship Cassard (1846)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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