List of ironclad warships of France

France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during the Crimean War, which presaged Gloire, the first sea-going ironclad to be built by any navy.

Broadside ironclads

Central battery ships

Barbette ships

Fomidable (11580 tons) next to a war antique Hellenistic-era warship (French: Quinquérème) (no sail power) (550 tons) for perspective visualizations.

Floating batteries

  • Dévastation class built for the Crimean War 1,600 tons.[1]
    • Congrève – stricken 1867
    • Dévastation (1855) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Foudroyante (1855) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Lave (1855) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Tonnante (1855) – stricken 1871.[1]
  • Palestro class 1,508–1,539 tons.[1]
    • Paixhans (1862) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Palestro (1862) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Peiho (1862) – stricken 1871.[1]
    • Saïgon (1862) – stricken 1871.[1]
  • Arrogante class 1,412-1.490 tons.[1]
    • Arrogante (1864) – stricken 1881.[1]
    • Implacable (1864) – stricken 1884.[1]
    • Opiniâtre (1864) – stricken 1885.[1]
  • Embuscade class 1,426–1,589 tons.[1]
    • Embuscade (1865) – stricken 1885.[1]
    • Imprenable (1867) – stricken 1882.[1]
    • Protectrice (1866) – stricken 1889.[1]
    • Refuge (1866) – stricken 1884.[1]

Casemate ironclad

Coastal defense ships

  • Taureau (1865) barbette ship ram 2,433 tons – stricken 1890.[1]
  • Onondaga (1863) ex-USS Onondaga 2,551 tons, purchased 1867 – stricken 1904.[1]
  • Cerbère class 3,532 tons.[1]
    • Bélier (1870) – stricken 1896.[1]
    • Bouledogue (1872) – stricken 1897.[1]
    • Cerbère (1868) – stricken 1887.[1]
    • Tigre (1871) – stricken 1892.[1]
  • Tonnerre class ,1st Class Coastal Battleship, 5,765–5,871 tons.[1]
    • Tonnerre (1875) – stricken 1905.[1]
    • Fulminant (1877) – stricken 1908.[1]
  • Furieux (1883) barbette ship 5,925 tons. Similar to Tonnant for the same reasons.[3] – stricken 1913.[1]
  • Tempête class, 2nd Class Coastal Battleship, 4.635-4,793 tons.[1]
    • Tempête (1876) – stricken 1907.[1]
    • Vengeur (1878) – stricken 1905.[1]
  • Tonnant (French: Tonnant) (1880) barbette ship 5,010 tons. Originally intended to be similar to Tempête, but redesigned as a small battleship with increased freeboard and a gun at each end in barbettes.[3] – stricken 1903.[1]
  • Bouvines class 6,681 tons.[1]
    • Amiral-Tréhouart (1893) – stricken 1922.[1]
    • Bouvines (1892) – stricken 1920.[1]
  • Valmy class 6,476 tons.[1]
    • Jemmapes (1892) – hulked 1911.[1]
    • Valmy (1892) – stricken 1911.[1]
  • Henri IV (1899) 8,807 tons – stricken 1921.[1][8][9]

See also

Citations

  1. 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
  2. Brassey, Lord, The Naval Annual 1890, pub Griffin, 1890.
  3. "Ropp, Theodore, The Development of a Modern Navy, French Naval Policy 1871–1904, pub US Naval Institute, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-141-2
  4. Hovgaard, William, Modern History of Warships, originally published 1920, pub Conway, 1978, ISBN 0-85177-040-1
  5. Brassey, Lord, The Naval Annual 1887, pub Griffin, 1887.
  6. Brassey, Lord, The Naval Annual 1886, pub Griffin, 1886.
  7. Page 86, Brassey, Lord, The Naval Annual 1886,
  8. Described as one of the first battleships to utilize turrets in superfiring mode
  9. In 1920, Henri IV became a TSF school-ship (French: navire-école)
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