french ironclad french ironclad second ship class ironclads built french_navy 1870s ship flagship deputy commander career took french occupation tunisia notably landing troops reclassified training ship condemned 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 meters ship measured meters overall beam meters maximum draft meters displaced metric tons long tons propulsion single wolf cylinder horizontal return connecting rod compound steam engine drove propeller engine powered oval boilers designed capacity indicated horsepower sea trials engine produced metric 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 wrought iron armor point ship received fourteen eighteen millimeter hotchkiss barrel revolving guns fired shell weighing 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 weapon mastery seas laid april toulon launched november exact reason prolonged construction time known believed reduction french_navy budget franco prussian war date work practices french likely causes ship completed november flagship second command following month sister ship bombarded port july french occupied tunisia disarmed placed reserve recommissioned february resumed role flagship placed reserve ship served gunnery training ship condemned march renamed var sold scrap years later
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