french ironclad french ironclad wooden armored corvette built french_navy 1860s designed cheap ironclad french ironclad sail world december spent bulk career pacific returning toulon target design description designed small cheap ironclad suitable foreign deployments armament armor concentrated middle ship like central battery ironclad unlike ships lacked armored transverse bulkheads vulnerable fire like ironclads era equipped bronze ram weighed kilograms measured meters waterline meters perpendiculars beam meters draft meters displaced metric tons long tons propulsion ship single horizontal return connecting rod steam engine driving single propeller engine powered oval boilers engine produced total indicated horsepower gave speed knots mph sea trials engine produced indicated horsepower ship reached knots mph carried metric tons long tons coal allowed ship steam nautical miles speed knots mph barque rigged initially sail area square meters later increased square metres armament mounted millimeter modèle guns central battery battery deck millimeter modèle guns guns carried pivot mounts fore aft upper deck partially rearmed exchanged pivot guns pair millimeter modèle guns addition millimeter hotchkiss barrel revolving guns added fired shell weighing muzzle velocity range meters rate fire rounds minute armor completely armored millimeters wrought iron battery deck meters waterline sides battery protected millimeters armor ends closed light screens fore aft battery sides unprotected service laid toulon september launched september ship began sea trials december enter service october day commissioned flagship command rear admiral december ship departed toulon attempt world arrived brest days sea french ironclad november hoisted flag rear admiral commander transferred flagship french division returned toulon june death rear admiral ship sent relieved french ironclad alma flagship station october returned toulon served months june reduced reserve paid november struck navy list target
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