French ship Algésiras (1855)
Algésiras used as a school ship | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Second French Empire | |
| Name | Algésiras |
| Namesake | Battle of Algeciras |
| Ordered | 13 November 1852 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
| Laid down | April 1853 |
| Launched | 4 October 1855 |
| Completed | May 1856 |
| Commissioned | 10 April 1856 |
| Decommissioned | 10 February 1865 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 20 November 1901 |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire, 25 November 1906 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Algésiras-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 5,121 t (5,040 long tons) |
| Length | 71.23 m (233 ft 8 in) (waterline) |
| Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load) |
| Depth of hold | 8.16 m (26 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power | 8 boilers; 2,057 ihp (1,534 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 screw; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
| Sail plan | Ship rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 913 |
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Algésiras was a second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ship of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s, lead ship of her class of five ships. The ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859.