Ship of the line of the French Navy
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| History |
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 France |
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| Namesake | Jean Bart |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | 26 January 1849 |
| Launched | 14 September 1852 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1886 |
| General characteristics |
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| 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 |
- 1824-1839:
- 30 × 30-pounders on lower deck
- 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck
- 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks
- 1839-1840
- 26 × 30-pounders and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck
- 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck
- 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
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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.
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