French ship Donawerth (1854)

The Donawerth was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy.

The Jean Bart, sister-ship of Donawerth. Drawing by Louis Le Breton
History
France
Namesake:	Jean Bart
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	1827
Launched:	1854
Fate:	Scrapped 1897
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:	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounders on lower deck 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounders and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour:	6.97 cm of timber

Her keel was laid in Lorient in 1827. She stayed abandoned in an unbuilt state for several years before being completed as a steam ship. She was eventually launched on 15 February 1854.

She took part in the Crimean War as a transport.

In 1860, she served off Beirut with Redoutable.[1]

In 1868, she was renamed to Jean Bart, and used as a school ship.

She was again renamed to Cyclope in 1886, and eventually broken up in 1897.