Provence Class Ironclad (1863)

Ten Provence class ironclads were completed for the French Navy during the second half of the 1860s.

Overview of 10 vessels
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
Template:FR-Heroïne	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.

See Also

• Wikipedia

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).