French ironclad Trident

Career (France)
Name: Trident
Namesake: Trident
Builder: Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down: 1 April 1870
Launched: 9 November 1876
Completed: 1 November 1878
Renamed: Var, 1904
Struck: Condemned 5 April 1900
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1909
General characteristics
Class and type: Colbert-class ironclad
Displacement: 8,857 metric tons (8,717 long tons)
Length: 101.1 m (331 ft 8 in)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft: 8.5 m (28 ft)
Installed power: 4,652 ihp (3,469 kW)
Propulsion: 1 shaft, 1 compound steam engine
8 oval boilers
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range: approximately 3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 774
Armament:

8 × 1 - 274 mm (10.8 in) guns
2 × 1 - 240 mm (9.4 in) guns
6 × 1 - 138 mm (5.4 in) guns

2 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
Armor: Belt: 180–220 mm (7.1–8.7 in)
Battery: 160 mm (6.3 in)
Deck: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Bulkheads: 120 mm (4.7 in)

Trident was a wooden-hulled, armored frigate of the Colbert class, built for the French Navy in the 1870s.

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