He fought against the British and Dutch at the battles of Beachy Head (French: Beveziers) and Barfluer.

On 27 June 1693 defeated an English convoy commanded by George Rooke at Cape St Vincent and made Marshall of France.

The 2nd Division sailing from Bizerte, Algeria on 8 December cruised the Eastern Mediterranean to monitor shipping.

Tourville returned on 26 December, she cruised from Bizerte, Algeria to Beirut, Lebanon during which she stopped and verified 32 merchant ships.

[12] From 20 January 1940 to 7 February she transported gold from France to Beirut to finance a loan from Turkey[13][14] On 4 May 1940 she arrived at Alexandria to join Vice Admiral Godfroy's Force X.

[15][16] She sailed in concert with cruiser Suffern and Fleet Torpedo boat Forbin arriving in Beirut on 21 May joined by Duquesne and Duguay-Trouin six days later.

On 11 June the ships conducted a raid into the Aegean off Crete, finding nothing returned to Alexandria on 13 May.

[19] On 18 August 1943 she sail with Duquesne via the Suez Canal, around the Cape of Good Hope to Dakar.

She participated in Operation Bentre and was at the Naval Review at Hal Long Bay (near Tonkin) on 23 March.

She sailed to Saigon calling at Nha Trang before returning to Ha Long Bay.

[23] At the end of September she sailed for Indochina, stopping in North Africa then on to Madagascar and La Reunion and finally Saigon on 30 November.

She carried out bombardments at Tourane (now Da Nang) in late December and January 1947 and a fire support mission off Annam in March.

She served as a floating barracks for the flotilla of the Second Maritime Region alongside the Battleship Paris, then Richelieu.