French battleship Dévastation (1879)

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Career (France)
Name:	Dévastation
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	20 December 1875 [1]
Launched:	19 August 1879 [1]
Completed:	15 July 1882 [1]
Out of service:	1922 [2]
Fate:	scrapped 1923 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Dévastation class ironclad
Type:	Battleship with central battery and barbettes
Displacement:	9,659 tonnes 10,090 tonnes full load [1]
Length:	95 m between perpendiculars 98.70 m waterline 10.25 m total overall length[1]
Beam:	21.25 m [1]
Draught:	7.51 m loaded draught forward 8.10 m loaded draught aft 7.80 m loaded draught amidships [1]
Depth of hold:	7.34 m [1]
Installed power:	12 boilers, 2 Woolf triple expansion engines totally 8,000 ihp [1]
Propulsion:	twin screw (5.24 m diameter) + sail
Sail plan:	ship rig, sail area 1,833 sq m [1]
Speed:	15 knots at full load (steam) [1]
Range:	3,100 miles at 10 knots (steam) [1]
Complement:	689 [2]
Armament:	As built: 4 × 34cm/18 model 1875 4 × 27cm/18 model 1870M 6 x 14cm model 1870M 18x 37mm Hotchkiss revolving cannon 4 x 14in torpedo tubes State in May1896 4 x 320mm/25 model 1870-81 4 x 274.4mm model 1875 6 x 138.6mm 2 x 65mm 6 x 47mm QF 20 x 37mm QF 2 x 14in torpedo tubes After May 1900-March 1902 refit 4 x 274.4mm model 1893 2 x 240mm/40 model 1893/96 10 x 100mm model 1891 and 1892 14 x 47mm QF 2 x 37mm QF [1][2]
Armour:	wrought iron 38cm thickness of belt amidships 24cm thickness of redoubt 6cm thickness of main deck armour [1]

The Dévastation was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy.

She was used as a school ship for manoeuvers.

[edit] Commanding officers of Dévastation

Date	Commanding Officer
6 October 1880	Captain Rallier [1]
18 August 1882	Captain Boucheron de Boissondy [1]
16 December 1882	Captain Olliver [1]
25 December 1884	Captain Dupuis [1]
31 January 1885	Captain Le Bourgeois [1]
11 December 1886	Captain Dieulouard [1]
27 December 1887	Captain Boulineau [1]
26 November 1890	Captain Floucaud de Fourcroy [1]
27 August 1891	Captain Gigon [1]
24 September 1892	Captain Caillard [1]
20 February 1893	Captain Marquis [1]
13 June 1893	Captain Pissere [1]
9 March 1895	Captain Antoine [1]
19 March 1896	Captain Bellue [1]
20 May 1897	Captain Cordier [1]
29 November 1897	Captain Fortin [1]
26 January 1901	Captain Simon (EP) [1]

[edit] Flag officers flying their flag in Dévastation

Start	End	Flag Officer
1 August 1882	14 November 1882	Vice-Admiral Thomasset, C-in-C the Reserve Squadron [1]
17 February 1885	17 January 1886	Rear-Admiral Rallier, the Evolutionary Squadron [1]
17 January 1886	18 December 1887	Rear-Admiral Devaresse, the Evolutionary Squadron [1]
18 December 1887	27 October 1889	Rear-Admiral Alquier, the Evolutionary Squadron [1]
15 October 1892	11 March 1893	Rear-Admiral Buge, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron [1]
12 March 1893	17 June 1893	Rear-Admiral Dupont, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron [1]
18 June 1893	14 March 1895	Rear-Admiral Gadaud, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron [1]
14 March 1895	5 May 1896	Rear-Admiral Maigret, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron [1]
5 May 1896	7 February 1897	Rear-Admiral Pottier, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1]
20 January 1898	14 March 1898	Rear-Admiral Godin, commanding the Division of the Reserve [1]

Note: rear-admirals of the Evolutionary Squadron were under the command the vice-admiral of the squadron.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap} Saibène, Marc, Les Cuirasses Redoutable, Dévastation, Courbet, Programme de 1872, pub Marine Édition, ISBN 2-909675-16-5
2. ^ ^{a b c} Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4