Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery
Lave in 1854 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Dévastation class |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Palestro class |
| Built | 1854–1855 |
| In service | 1855–1871 |
| Completed | 5 |
| Scrapped | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ironclad floating battery |
| Displacement | 1,604 t (1,579 long tons) |
| Length | 53 m (173 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 13.55 m (44 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
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| Propulsion | 1 propeller; 1 direct-acting steam engine |
| Speed | 3.2–3.8 knots (5.9–7.0 km/h; 3.7–4.4 mph) |
| Crew | 282 |
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The Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries were built for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications during the Crimean War. France had intended to build ten of these vessels, but in the time available was only able to construct five in French shipyards, of which the first three took part in the attack on Kinburn in 1855, and served in the Adriatic in June–July 1859 during the Italian war. All five were stricken from the navy list between 1867 and 1875 and subsequently scrapped.