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| − | The ten units were ordered on 16 November, 1860, and were intended as improved versions of the {{FR-Gloire}}. Their design was drawn up by Dupuy de Lôme. All were wooden-hulled except for the {{ | + | The ten units were ordered on 16 November, 1860, and were intended as improved versions of the {{FR-Gloire}}. Their design was drawn up by Dupuy de Lôme. All were wooden-hulled except for the {{FR-Heroine}}, which was built of iron.{{Conways1860|p. 287}} |
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Ten Provence class ironclads were completed for the French Navy during the second half of the 1860s.
| Overview of 10 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Flandre | Arsenal de Cherbourg | 21 Jan, 1861 | 12 Jun, 1864 | May, 1865 | Broken up 1887 |
| Gauloise | Arsenal de Brest | 21 Jan, 1861 | 26 Apr, 1865 | 12 Apr, 1867 | Broken up 1884 |
| Guyenne | Arsenal de Rochefort | Mar, 1861 | 6 Sep, 1865 | 15 Apr, 1866 | Stricken 19 Oct, 1882 |
| Magnanime | Arsenal de Brest | 27 Feb, 1861 | 19 Aug, 1864 | Broken up 1883 | |
| Provence | Arsenal de Toulon | Mar, 1861 | 28 Dec, 1865 | Broken up 1893 | |
| Revanche | Arsenal de Toulon | Mar, 1861 | 28 Dec, 1865 | 1 May, 1867 | Sold 1893 |
| Savoie | Arsenal de Toulon | Mar, 1861 | 29 Sep, 1863 | Broken up 1889 | |
| Surveillante | Arsenal de Lorient | 28 Jan, 1861 | 18 Aug, 1864 | 21 Oct, 1867 | Hulked 1898 |
| Valeureuse | Arsenal de Brest | 23 May, 1861 | 18 Aug, 1864 | Broken up 1888 | |
| Héroïne | Arsenal de Lorient | 10 Jun, 1861 | 10 Dec, 1863 | Hulked 1894 | |
Design & Construction
The ten units were ordered on 16 November, 1860, and were intended as improved versions of the Template:FR-Gloire. Their design was drawn up by Dupuy de Lôme. All were wooden-hulled except for the Héroïne, which was built of iron.[1]
Performance
Armament
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 287.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
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| Revanche | Savoie | Surveillante | Valeureuse | Héroïne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <– | Couronne | Ironclads (FR) | Onondaga | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <– | Couronne | Battleships (FR) | Brennus | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
