History | |
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Second French Empire | |
Name | Redoutable |
Ordered | 17 February 1853 |
Builder | Arsenal de Rochefort |
Laid down | 11 April 1853 |
Launched | 25 October 1855 |
Completed | November 1856 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1856 |
In service | 26 March 1857 |
Stricken | 15 November 1869 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1873–1874 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Algésiras-class |
Displacement | 5,121 t (5,040 long tons) |
Length | 71.23 m (233 ft 8 in) (waterline) |
Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load) |
Depth of hold | 8.16 m (26 ft 9 in) |
Installed power | 8 boilers; 3,602 PS (2,649 kW) |
Propulsion | 1 screw; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
Sail plan | Ship rigged |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 913 |
Armament |
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Redoubtable was one of five second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered Algésiras-class ships of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s. The ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and was scrapped in 1873–1874.