French ship Jean Bart (1852)
For other ships with the same name, see French ship Jean Bart and French ship Donawerth.
The Jean Bart, drawing by Louis Le Breton | |
History | |
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France | |
Namesake: | Jean Bart |
Builder: | Lorient |
Laid down: | 26 January 1849 |
Launched: | 14 September 1852 |
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 Jean Bart was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean Bart.
She took part in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) and the Battle of Kinburn (1855).
In 1856, she was fitted with a steam engine. From 1864, she was used as a training ship. She was renamed to Donawerth in September 1868, and was finally scrapped as Cyclope in 1886.
References
- Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I
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