French ironclad Dévastation
The Dévastation was an Dévastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy of central battery (casemate) design. She was used as a school ship for manoeuvres.
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Name: | Dévastation |
Builder: | Lorient |
Laid down: | 20 December 1875[1] |
Launched: | 19 August 1879[1] |
Completed: | 15 July 1882[1] |
Out of service: | 1922[2] |
Fate: | Scrapped 1923[1] |
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Class and type: | Dévastation class battleship |
Type: | Battleship with central battery and barbettes |
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Beam: | 21.25 m (69.7 ft)[1] |
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Depth of hold: | 7.34 m (24.1 ft)[1] |
Installed power: | 12 boilers, 2 Woolf triple expansion engines totally 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW)[1] |
Propulsion: | twin screw (5.24 m diameter) + sail |
Sail plan: | ship rig, sail area 1,833 m²[1] |
Speed: | 15 kn (28 km/h) at full load (steam)[1] |
Range: | 3,100 nmi (5,700 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) (steam)[1] |
Complement: | 689[2] |
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In 1922, she sank off Lorient, France. She was refloated on 18 April 1927.[3]
Commanding officers of Dévastation
Date | Commanding Officer |
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6 October 1880 | Captain Rallier[1] |
18 August 1882 | Captain Boucheron de Boissondy[1] |
16 December 1882 | Captain Olliver[1] |
25 December 1884 | Captain Dupuis[1] |
31 January 1885 | Captain Le Bourgeois[1] |
11 December 1886 | Captain Dieulouard[1] |
27 December 1887 | Captain Boulineau[1] |
26 November 1890 | Captain Floucaud de Fourcroy[1] |
27 August 1891 | Captain Gigon[1] |
24 September 1892 | Captain Caillard[1] |
20 February 1893 | Captain Marquis[1] |
13 June 1893 | Captain Pissere[1] |
9 March 1895 | Captain Antoine[1] |
19 March 1896 | Captain Bellue[1] |
20 May 1897 | Captain Cordier[1] |
29 November 1897 | Captain Fortin[1] |
26 January 1901 | Captain Simon (EP)[1] |
Flag officers flying their flag in Dévastation
Start | End | Flag Officer |
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1 August 1882 | 14 November 1882 | Vice-Admiral Thomasset, C-in-C, Reserve Squadron[1] |
17 February 1885 | 17 January 1886 | Rear-Admiral Rallier, Evolutionary Squadron[1] |
17 January 1886 | 18 December 1887 | Rear-Admiral Devaresse, Evolutionary Squadron[1] |
18 December 1887 | 27 October 1889 | Rear-Admiral Alquier, Evolutionary Squadron[1] |
15 October 1892 | 11 March 1893 | Rear-Admiral Buge, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1] |
12 March 1893 | 17 June 1893 | Rear-Admiral Dupont, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1] |
18 June 1893 | 14 March 1895 | Rear-Admiral Gadaud, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1] |
14 March 1895 | 5 May 1896 | Rear-Admiral Maigret, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1] |
5 May 1896 | 7 February 1897 | Rear-Admiral Pottier, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron[1] |
20 January 1898 | 14 March 1898 | Rear-Admiral Godin, commanding the Division of the Reserve[1] |
Note: Rear-admirals of the Evolutionary Squadron were under the command of the vice-admiral of the squadron.
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French ironclad Dévastation (in the middle of the photo) in Brest, 1912
Footnotes
- Saibène, Marc, Les Cuirasses Redoutable, Dévastation, Courbet, Programme de 1872, pub Marine Édition, ISBN 2-909675-16-5
- Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
- "(untitled)". The Times (44559). London. 19 April 1927. col F, p. 12.
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