French ironclad Belliqueuse
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Belliqueuse
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Belliqueuse class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | Alma-class ironclad |
| Built: | 1863–1866 |
| In service: | 1866–1918 |
| In commission: | 1866–1884 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| History | |
 France
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| Name: | Belliqueuse |
| Laid down: | September 1863 |
| Launched: | 6 September 1865 |
| Commissioned: | 30 October 1866 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target, 1886 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | ironclad |
| Displacement: | 3,777 metric tons (3,717 long tons) |
| Length: | 70 m (229 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 14.01 m (46 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 6.97 m (22.9 ft) |
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| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Barque-rig |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range: | 1,410 nautical miles (2,610 km; 1,620 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 300 |
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The French ironclad Belliqueuse ("") was a wooden-hulled, armored corvette, built for the French Navy in the 1860s and designed as a cheap ironclad. She was the first French ironclad to sail around the world, which she did between December 1867 and May 1869. She spent the bulk of her career in the Pacific before returning to Toulon, where she was used as a target in 1886.
Belliqueuse was designed as a small and cheap ironclad suitable for foreign deployments. Her armament and armor was concentrated in the middle of the ship like a central battery ironclad, but unlike those ships she lacked armored transverse bulkheads and was very vulnerable to raking fire. Like most ironclads of her era she was equipped with a bronze ram; hers weighed 2,200 kilograms (4,900 lb).
Belliqueuse measured 68.05 meters (223 ft 3 in) at the waterline and 70 meters (229 ft 8 in) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 14.01 meters (46 ft 0 in). She had a draft of 6.97 meters (22 ft 10 in) and displaced 3,777 metric tons (3,717 long tons).
The ship had a single horizontal return connecting-rod steam engine driving a single propeller. Her engine was powered by four oval boilers. The engine produced a total of 1,200 indicated horsepower (890 kW) and gave a top speed of 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph). On sea trials the engine produced 1,227 indicated horsepower (915 kW) and the ship reached 11.83 knots (21.91 km/h; 13.61 mph).Belliqueuse carried 250 metric tons (250 long tons) of coal which allowed the ship to steam for 1,410 nautical miles (2,610 km; 1,620 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).
Belliqueuse was barque-rigged; initially she had a sail area of 1,450 square meters (15,600 sq ft), but this was later increased to 1,800 square metres (19,000 sq ft) in 1869.
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