French ship Redoutable (1855)
History | |
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Name: | Redoutable |
Builder: | Rochefort. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme [1] |
Laid down: | 4 March 1853 [1] |
Launched: | 25 October 1855 [1] |
Commissioned: | 26 March 1857 [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 Redoutable was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Redoutable took part in the Second Italian War of Independence under Captain Vincent Moulac. In 1860, she served off Beirut with Donawerth. [1]
She was decommissioned in 1865, was hulked in Brest and used as barracks until she was broken up in 1874. [1]
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