Amiral Baudin class battleship

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Class overview
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Name:	Amiral Baudin
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Terrible class
Succeeded by:	Marceau class
Subclasses:	Hoche
General characteristics
Type:	battleship
Displacement:	12 150 tonnes
Length:	98 metres
Beam:	21.2 metres
Draught:	7.9 metres
Propulsion:	9700 shp
Speed:	16 knots
Complement:	650
Armament:	3 × 370mm/28 Modèle 1875 guns in single mountings 4 × 163mm/30 Modèle 1884 guns in single mountings 10 × 138mm/45 Modèle 1888 guns in single mountings 6 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armour:	450 mm
Notes:	Ships in class include: Amiral Baudin, Formidable, Hoche

The Amiral Baudin class was a type of ironclad battleships of the French Navy.

They were built on a design similar to that of Amiral Duperré, enlarged and designed from the start to use steam propulsion only. The layout was designed in 1879, when it was competitive, but by 1888, time of the completion of the ships, it was already largely obsolete.

They were upgraded with armoured masts carrying small guns. The last ship of the series, Hoche, was so largely modified over the original design that she is often considered to be a single ship.