french ironclad french ironclad lead ship class ironclads built french_navy 1870s ship flagship career took french conquest tunisia notably landing troops july paid condemned ship finally sold scrap design description class ships designed improved versions ironclad central battery ironclad armament concentrated amidships like ironclads era equipped shaped ram crew numbered officers men metacentric height ship low little feet ship measured meters overall beam meters maximum draft meters displaced metric tons long tons propulsion reverted single propeller shaft improve sailing qualities wolf cylinder horizontal return connecting rod compound steam engine engine powered oval boilers designed capacity indicated horsepower sea trials engine produced indicated horsepower reached knots mph carried maximum metric tons long tons coal allowed steam approximately nautical miles speed knots mph ship rigged masts sail area square meters armament millimeter guns mounted barbettes upper deck gun forward corners battery additional guns battery deck barbettes upper deck cut away improve ability barbette guns bear fore aft millimeter mounted forecastle chase gun ship secondary armament consisted millimeter guns forward battery aft guns replaced millimeter gun stern ship mounted water millimeter torpedo tubes ship guns fire solid shot explosive shells millimeter modèle gun credited ability penetrate maximum inches wrought iron armor gun penetrate inches armor point ship received fourteen eighteen millimeter hotchkiss barrel revolving guns gun range meters rate fire rounds minute armor class ships complete wrought iron waterline belt millimeters thick amidships tapered millimeters stern backed millimeters wood sides battery armored millimeters wrought iron backed millimeters wood ends battery closed transverse armored bulkheads millimeters thick backed millimeters wood barbettes deck millimeters thick service named honor king laid brest july launched september exact reason prolonged construction time known believed reduction french_navy budget franco prussian war date work practices french likely causes ship began sea trials flagship august october flagship post hold january placed reserve bombarded port july french occupied tunisia flagship april disarmed paid condemned august sold scrap
French ironclad Colbert