Palestro-class ironclad floating battery

Class overview
Paixhans in 1862
Name:	Palestro class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Dévastation class
Succeeded by:	Embuscade class
Built:	1859–1862
In service:	1862–1871
Completed:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement:	1,560 metric tons (1,540 long tons)
Length:	47.5 m (155 ft 10 in)
Beam:	14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draft:	3 m (9.8 ft) (mean)
Installed power:	150 nhp (580 ihp)
Propulsion:	Twin screw, FCM steam engine
Speed:	7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
Complement:	212
Armament:	12 × 160mm guns later 2 of the 160mm guns were replaced by 1 x 40mm gun
Armor:	Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) wrought iron

The Palestro-class ironclad floating batteries were four floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859-62 to replace the Crimean War-built vessels because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been built hurriedly with poor wood.

Name	Built at	Laid down	Launched
Palestro	Arman, Bordeaux	1859	August 1862
Pei-ho	Arman, Bordeaux	1859	September 1862
Saigon	Arman, Bordeaux	1859	September 1862
Paixhans	Arman, Bordeaux	1859	September 1862

References

Bibliography

de Balincourt, Captain; Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain (1973). "French Floating Batteries". F.P.D.S. Newsletter. Akron, OH: F.P.D.S. I (2): 13–20.
Caruana, J.; Koehler, R. B. (1996). "Question 7/95: French Ironclad Floating Batteries". Warship International. Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research Organization. XXXIII (4): 416–18. ISSN 0043-0374.
Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.

French ironclads

Broadside ironclads	Gloire Couronne^S Magenta Provence Belliqueuse^S

Central battery ironclads	Alma Océan Friedland^S La Galissonnière Richelieu^S Colbert Redoutable^S Dévastation

Barbette ironclads	Amiral Duperré^S Amiral Baudin Hoche^S Marceau Charles Martel^X

Casemate ironclads	Rochambeau^S

Monitor	Onondaga^S

Floating batteries	Dévastation Palestro Arrogante Embuscade

S Single ship of class X Cancelled

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