Palestro-class ironclad floating battery

Paixhans in 1862
Class overview
Name:	Palestro class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Dévastation class
Succeeded by:	Embuscade class
Built:	1859–1862
In service:	1862–1871
Completed:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement:	1,560 metric tons (1,540 long tons)
Length:	47.5 m (155 ft 10 in)
Beam:	14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draft:	3 m (9.8 ft) (mean)
Installed power:	150 nhp (580 ihp)
Propulsion:	Twin screw, FCM steam engine
Speed:	7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
Complement:	212
Armament:	12 × 160mm guns later 2 of the 160mm guns were replaced by 1 x 40mm gun
Armor:	Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) wrought iron

The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859-62 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been built hurriedly with poor wood.

References

Bibliography

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