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French ship Arcole (1855)

History
France
Name: Arcole
Namesake: Battle of Arcole
Ordered: 1853
Builder: Toulon. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Laid down: 4 March 1853
Launched: 20 May 1855
Commissioned: September 1856
Struck: 11 April 1970
General characteristics
Class and type: Algésiras class ship of the line
Displacement: 5160 tonnes
Length: 71.6 m (235 ft)
Beam: 16.8 m (55 ft)
Draught: 8.1 m (27 ft)
Propulsion:
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 340 men
Armament:
  • 4 138mm guns
  • 4 revolver guns
  • 2 37mm guns
Armour: timber

The Arcole was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.

Arcole was the second of production ship built on the principles of the "fast ship of the line" pioneered by Napoléon. She took the place of the 130-gun Desaix, of the Bretagne type, when the latter was cancelled.

She took part in the Second Italian War of Independence, and was broken in 1872.


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