Palestro-class ironclad floating battery
.jpg) 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 |
References
- Bibliography
- de Balincourt, Captain; Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain (1973). "French Floating Batteries". F.P.D.S. Newsletter (Akron, OH: F.P.D.S.) I (2): 13–20.
- Caruana, J.; Koehler, R. B. (1996). "Question 7/95: French Ironclad Floating Batteries". Warship International (Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research Organization). XXXIII (4): 416–18. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.