Palestro-class ironclad floating battery
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Paixhans in 1862
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Palestro class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Preceded by: | Dévastation class |
| Succeeded by: | Embuscade class |
| Built: | 1859–1862 |
| In service: | 1862–1871 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Scrapped: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ironclad floating battery |
| Displacement: | 1,560 metric tons (1,540 long tons) |
| Length: | 47.5 m (155 ft 10 in) |
| Beam: | 14.04 m (46 ft 1 in) |
| Draft: | 3 m (9.8 ft) (mean) |
| Installed power: | 150 nhp (580 ihp) |
| Propulsion: | Twin screw, FCM steam engine |
| Speed: | 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) |
| Complement: | 212 |
| Armament: |
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| Armor: | Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) wrought iron |
The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859-62 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been built hurriedly with poor wood.
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