French ship Louis XIV

	Engraving by Lebreton showing Louis XIV as a naval school
History
France
Namesake	"Thundering", Louis XIV of France
Builder	Rochefort shipyard
Laid down	1811
Launched	28 February 1854
Decommissioned	1873
Renamed	Louis XIV in 1828
Stricken	3 May 1880
Reinstated	sail/steam ship in 1857
Fate	Broken up, 1882
General characteristics
Class & type	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement	5,095 tonneaux
Tons burthen	2,794–2,930 port tonneaux
Length	63.83 m (209 ft 5 in) (gun deck)
Beam	16.4 m (53 ft 10 in)
Draught	8.14 m (26 ft 8 in)
Depth of hold	8.12 m (26 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	sail, 3,250 m2 (35,000 sq ft)
Sail plan	full-rigged ship
Complement	1,130
Armament	76 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns; Lower gundeck: 24 × 30-pounder long guns, 4 × 22 cm (8.7 in) long Paixhans guns; Upper gundeck: 24 × 30-pounder short guns, 4 × 22 cm (8.7 in) short Paixhans guns; Forecastle & Quarterdeck: 4 × 30-pounder long guns, 12 × 16 cm (6.3 in) Paixhans guns;

Louis XIV was a first-rate 118-gun Océan-class ship of the line built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Not completed until 1854, the ship participated in the Crimean War of 1854–1855. She was converted to steam power in 1857.