Palestro-class ironclad floating battery
Appearance
![]() Paixhans (right) in 1862
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Class overview | |
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Name | Palestro class |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Dévastation class |
Succeeded by | Embuscade class |
Built | 1859–1862 |
In service | 1862–1871 |
Completed | 4 |
Scrapped | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ironclad floating battery |
Displacement | 1,560 t (1,540 long tons) |
Length | 47.5 m (155 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 14.04 m (46 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 3 m (9.8 ft) (mean) |
Installed power | 580 ihp (430 kW) |
Propulsion | Twin screw, FCM steam engine |
Speed | 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) |
Complement | 212 |
Armament |
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Armor | Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) |
The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been built hurriedly with poor wood.
Name | Built at | Laid down | Launched |
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Palestro | Arman, Bordeaux | 1859 | August 1862 |
Pei-ho | Arman, Bordeaux | 1859 | September 1862 |
Saigon | Arman, Bordeaux | 1859 | September 1862 |
Paixhans | Arman, Bordeaux | 1859 | September 1862 |
References
[edit]- Bibliography
- de Balincourt, Captain; Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain (1973). "French Floating Batteries". F.P.D.S. Newsletter. I (2). Akron, OH: F.P.D.S.: 13–20. OCLC 41554533.
- Caruana, J.; Koehler, R. B. (1996). "Question 7/95: French Ironclad Floating Batteries". Warship International. XXXIII (4). Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research Organization: 416–18. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.