Devastation-class ironclad
Dévastation
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| Class overview |
| Name: |
Dévastation class |
| Operators: |
French Navy
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| Built: |
1875-1886 |
| In commission: |
1882-1922 |
| Completed: |
2 |
| Scrapped: |
2 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Central battery ironclad
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| Displacement: |
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| Length: |
- 100.25 m (328 ft 11 in) o/a
- 95 m (311 ft 8 in) p/p
- 98.70 m (323 ft 10 in) w/l
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| Beam: |
21.25 m (69 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: |
- 7.51 m (24 ft 8 in) loaded draught forward
- 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) 7.80 m loaded draught amidships
- 8.10 m (26 ft 7 in) 8.10 m loaded draught aft
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| Depth of hold: |
7.34 m (24 ft 1 in) |
| Installed power: |
12 boilers, 2 Woolf triple expansion engines totalling 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
Twin screws (5.24 m diameter) + sail |
| Sail plan: |
- Ship rig
- Sail area 1,833 m2 (19,730 sq ft)
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| Speed: |
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at full load (steam) |
| Range: |
3,100 nmi (5,700 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) (steam) |
| Complement: |
689 |
| Armament: |
- Dévastation as built:
- 4 × 34cm/18 model 1875
- 4 × 27cm/18 model 1870M
- 6 × 14cm model 1870M
- 18 × 37mm Hotchkiss revolving cannon
- 4 × 14in torpedo tubes
- Dévastation state in May 1896:
- 4 × 320mm/25 model 1870-81
- 4 × 274.4mm model 1875
- 6 × 138.6mm
- 2 × 65mm
- 6 × 47mm QF
- 20 × 37mm QF
- 2 × 14in torpedo tubes
- Dévastation after March 1902 refit:
- 4 × 274.4mm model 1893
- 2 × 240mm/40 model 1893/96
- 10 × 100mm model 1891 and 1892
- 14 × 47mm QF
- 2 × 37mm QF
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| Armour: |
- Wrought iron
- 38 cm (15 in) belt amidships
- 24 cm (9.4 in) redoubt
- 6 cm (2.4 in) main deck
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The Dévastation-class ironclads were a class of ironclad battleships that were laid down as part of the 1872 programme. They were a development of the 1876 ironclad Redoutable. The class consisted of:
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