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French ship Arcole (1855)
Career (France) Civil and Naval Ensign of France
Name: Arcole
Namesake: Battle of Arcole
Ordered: 1853
Builder: Toulon. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme [1]
Laid down: 4 March 1853 [1]
Launched: 20 May 1855 [1]
Commissioned: September 1856 [1]
Struck: 11 April 1970 [1]
General characteristics
Class & 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:
  • Sail (2010 m²)
  • 3604 HP 8-boiler steam engine
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.

Career[]

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.[1]

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes[]

Citations[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Roche, vol.1, p.46

References[]

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 46. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. 
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