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BELLIQUEUSE broadside ironclad (1866)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Belliquese     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1863 6.9.1865 1866 target 1886

 

Displacement normal, t

3717

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

70.0 wl

Breadth, m

14.0

Draught, m

6.97 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HRCR, 4 oval boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 250

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armour, mm

wrought iron; belt: 150, battery: 120

Armament

4 x 1 - 194/19 M1864 MLR, 6 x 1 - 165/18 M1864 MLR

Complement

300

Project history: A wooden-hulled ship with no plating outside the armour. There was a bronze pointed ram 3m below water, and the Belliqueuse was rigged as a barque with 1450m², later increased to 1770m² of sail. The 194mm and 4 165mm guns were in the battery 1.8m above water and 2 165mm, later the 139mm, on the upper deck.

Ship protection: There was a complete belt from the battery deck to 1.26m below water, but the battery bulkheads were only thin plating.

Modernizations: 1870s: - 4 x 1 - 194/19, 2 x 1 - 165/18; + 4 x 1 - 194/20 M1870, 5 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss.

Naval service: No significant events.

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