Palestro-class ironclad floating battery

Paixhans in 1862
Class overview
Name: Palestro class
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Dévastation class
Succeeded by: Embuscade class
Built: 1859–1862
In service: 1862–1871
Completed: 4
Scrapped: 4
General characteristics
Type:Ironclad floating battery
Displacement:1,560 metric tons (1,540 long tons)
Length:47.5 m (155 ft 10 in)
Beam:14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draft:3 m (9.8 ft) (mean)
Installed power:150 nhp (580 ihp)
Propulsion:Twin screw, FCM steam engine
Speed:7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
Complement:212
Armament:12 × 160mm guns
later 2 of the 160mm guns were replaced by 1 x 40mm gun
Armor:Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) wrought iron

The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859-62 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been built hurriedly with poor wood.

Name Built at Laid down Launched
Palestro Arman, Bordeaux 1859 August 1862
Pei-ho Arman, Bordeaux 1859 September 1862
Saigon Arman, Bordeaux 1859 September 1862
Paixhans Arman, Bordeaux 1859 September 1862

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