Dévastation-class ironclad
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Not to be confused with the British Devastation-class ironclads or the 1850s Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries.
 Dévastation | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Dévastation class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy |
| Built: | 1875-1886 |
| In commission: | 1882-1922 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Scrapped: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Battleship with central battery and barbettes |
| Displacement: |
9,659 tonnes standard 10,090 tonnes full load[1] |
| Length: |
100.25 m (328 ft 11 in) o/a 95 m (311 ft 8 in) p/p 98.70 m (323 ft 10 in) w/l[1] |
| Beam: | 21.25 m (69 ft 9 in)[1] |
| Draught: |
7.51 m (24 ft 8 in) loaded draught forward 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) 7.80 m loaded draught amidships 8.10 m (26 ft 7 in) 8.10 m loaded draught aft[1] |
| Depth of hold: | 7.34 m (24 ft 1 in)[1] |
| Installed power: | 12 boilers, 2 Woolf triple expansion engines totalling 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW)[1] |
| Propulsion: | Twin screws (5.24 m diameter) + sail |
| Sail plan: |
Ship rig Sail area 1,833 m2 (19,730 sq ft)[1] |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at full load (steam)[1] |
| Range: | 3,100 nmi (5,700 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) (steam)[1] |
| Complement: | 689[2] |
| Armament: |
Dévastation as built: 4 × 34cm/18 model 1875 4 × 27cm/18 model 1870M 6 × 14cm model 1870M 18 × 37mm Hotchkiss revolving cannon 4 × 14in torpedo tubes Dévastation state in May 1896: 4 × 320mm/25 model 1870-81 4 × 274.4mm model 1875 6 × 138.6mm 2 × 65mm 6 × 47mm QF 20 × 37mm QF 2 × 14in torpedo tubes Dévastation after March 1902 refit: 4 × 274.4mm model 1893 2 × 240mm/40 model 1893/96 10 × 100mm model 1891 and 1892 14 × 47mm QF 2 × 37mm QF[1][2] |
| Armour: |
Wrought iron 38 cm (1 ft 3 in) belt amidships 24 cm (9.4 in) redoubt 6 cm (2.4 in) main deck[1] |
The French Dévastation class ironclad battleships were laid down as part of the 1872 programme. They were a development of the Redoutable (1876).[1] The class consisted of:
- Dévastation (1879)
- Courbet (1882)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Saibène, Marc, Les Cuirasses Redoutable, Dévastation, Courbet, Programme de 1872, pub Marine Édition, ISBN 2-909675-16-5
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
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