French ship Alexandre (1857)
For other ships with the same name, see French ship Alexandre.
Portrait of Alexandre as a gunnery school ship, her engine removed after 1873. by François Roux. | |
History | |
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France | |
Name: | Alexandre |
Namesake: | Alexander the Great |
Builder: | Rochefort [1] |
Laid down: | 30 May 1848 [1] |
Launched: | 27 March 1857 [1] |
Struck: | 22 February 1877 [1] |
Fate: | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Suffren class ship of the line |
Displacement: | 4 070 tonnes |
Length: | 60.50 m (198.5 ft) |
Beam: | 16.28 m (53.4 ft) |
Draught: | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Propulsion: | 3114 m² of sails |
Complement: | 810 to 846 men |
Armament: |
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Armour: | 6.97 cm of timber |
The Alexandre was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the ninth ship in French service named in honour of Alexander the Great.
Career
Designed to be a sailing ship of the line, Alexandre was converted to a steam and sail ship while on keel and served in Italy during the Italian unification. In 1873, her engine was removed and she became a gunnery school ship. She was eventually scrapped in 1900.[1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- 90-guns ships-of-the-line
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