Model of Océan on display at the Musée de la Marine, Paris
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Suffren |
Namesake | Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez |
Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
Laid down | July 1866 |
Launched | 26 December 1870 |
Completed | 5 August 1873 |
Commissioned | 1 March 1876 |
Stricken | 1895 |
Fate | Discarded 15 July 1897 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Océan-class ironclad |
Displacement | 7,800 metric tons (7,700 long tons) |
Length | 86.2 m (282 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 17.52 m (57 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 9.09 m (29.8 ft) |
Installed power | 4,100 ihp (3,100 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Barque or barquentine-rig |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Range | approximately 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 750–778 |
Armament |
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Armor |
Suffren was a wooden-hulled, armored frigate of the Océan class, built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s. Although she was laid down in 1866, the ship was not launched until 1870 and commissioned in 1876. Suffren was one of the French ships assigned to the international squadron gathered to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin in 1880. The ship was paid off in 1895 and discarded two years later.