Laid down as Tonnant 1811 at Rochefort, she was renamed to Louis-XIV in 1828, still on keel. She was launched only in 1854, and was put in the reserve the next year. 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 of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857. In 1873, Louis XIV was decommissioned again. She was struck on 3 May 1880, and sold for scrap in 1882.