French ship Impérial (1856)
History | |
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Name: | Impérial |
Builder: | Rochefort. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme [1] |
Laid down: | 19 August 1853 [1] |
Launched: | 15 November 1855 [1] |
Struck: | 15 November 1869 [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Algésiras class ship of the line |
Displacement: | 5160 tonnes |
Length: | 71.6 m (235 ft) |
Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
Draught: | 8.1 m (27 ft) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement: | 340 men |
Armament: |
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Armour: | timber |
The Impérial was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Impérial took part in the French intervention in Mexico. [1]
She was renamed to Jupiter in 1870, used as a barracks hulk, and eventually broken up around 1898. [1]
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