French ship Arcole (1855)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Arcole.
Arcole 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 1872.
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Name | Arcole |
Namesake | Battle of Arcole |
Ordered | 13 November 1852 |
Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
Laid down | 4 March 1853 |
Launched | 20 March 1855 |
Completed | September 1856 |
Commissioned | 8 May 1856 |
Reclassified | As a prison hulk, May 1871 |
Stricken | 11 April 1870 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1872 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Algésiras-class ship of the line |
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; 3,600 PS (2,600 kW) |
Propulsion | 1 screw; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines |
Sail plan | Ship rigged |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 913 |
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