Career
She was engaged in the Crimean War, where she proved difficult to manoeuvre and, like other sailing vessels, often had to be towed by steam ships. During the bombardment of Sevastopol, the only time she fired her guns in anger, she was towed by the new steam two-decker Napoléon.
She returned to Brest in 1855, where she was disarmed. She was used as a school ship for the French Naval Academy from 1864 under the name Borda. She took back her old name of Intrépide one year before being stricken from the navy list in 1891. She was scrapped soon afterwards.
The name Valmy was later re-used for a Guépard class destroyer, launched in 1927 and scuttled in 1942.
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Visite by Imperatrice Eugénie aboard the Borda (ex-Valmy) on 26 July 1867, by Auguste Mayer
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1/40th-scale model of the Valmy
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1/40th-scale model of the Valmy
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1/40th-scale model of the Valmy
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1/40th-scale model of the Valmy
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