French ship Jean Bart (1852)
Appearance
![]() The Jean Bart, drawing by Louis Le Breton
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History | |
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Namesake | Jean Bart |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 26 January 1849 |
Launched | 14 September 1852 |
Fate | Scrapped 1886 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Suffren class ship of the line |
Displacement | 4 070 tonnes |
Length | 60.50 m (198.5 ft) |
Beam | 16.28 m (53.4 ft) |
Draught | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Propulsion | 3114 m² of sails |
Complement | 810 to 846 men |
Armament |
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Armour | 6.97 cm of timber |
The Jean Bart was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean Bart.
She took part in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) and the Battle of Kinburn (1855).
In 1856, she was fitted with a steam engine. From 1864, she was used as a training ship. She was renamed to Donawerth in September 1868, and was finally scrapped as Cyclope in 1886.
References
[edit]- Jones, Colin (1996). "Entente Cordiale, 1865". In McLean, David & Preston, Antony (eds.). Warship 1996. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-685-X.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.