Solférino (ship)
.jpg) Photography of the solferino |
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| Overview | |
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| Type | Steam frigate , armored ship |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | June 24, 1859 |
| Launch | June 24, 1861 |
| Namesake | after the battle of Solferino |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Decommissioning | 1879 |
| home port | Cherbourg |
| Whereabouts | Wrecked in 1882 |
| Technical specifications | |
| together with the Magenta the only two-deck broadside ship with two battery decks and the first two armored ships with ram ram | |
| displacement |
7,124 t |
| length |
86.6 m |
| width |
17.2 m |
| Draft |
8.43 m |
| crew |
681 |
| drive |
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| speed |
12.8 knots |
| Range |
3 months of food, 740 tons of coal |
| Armament |
50 breech-loaders of 16.4 cm caliber, after conversion: 10 24 cm caliber cannons and 4 19.4 cm cannons |
| Armor |
Belt: 150 mm iron along the waterline and 120 mm along the battery |
The Solférino was an ironclad in the French Navy .
Already during the construction of La Gloire , Admiral Labrousse suggested the construction of two larger ships. The Solférino was on 24th June 1859 Kiel set and ran two years later, on 24 June 1861 from the stack . She was the second and last ship of the Magenta class and was designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme . The ships of the Magenta class were the only broadside ships with two battery decks that were built. This design should provide space for as many guns as possible. They were also the first ironclad ships with ram rams . This ram had a weight of 14 tons. On its upper battery deck there were 24 breeches with a caliber of 16.4 cm. In another 26 breeches of the same caliber below. The gates for the lower battery could not be opened in heavy seas. The armament of the upper battery deck was later changed to ten 24 cm cannons. The lower battery remained unoccupied. Four more 19.4 cm cannons were on the upper deck. Due to the heavy weight of the guns, the armor was saved. The Solférino only had 150 mm armor along the waterline and 120 mm along the battery.
In terms of design, the Solférino was an enlarged version of La Gloire, also designed by de Lôme.
literature
- James Phinney Baxter: The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1933.
- Jochen Brennecke, Herbert Hader: Ironclad ships and ships of the line 1860-1910. Koehler, Herford 1976, ISBN 3-7822-0116-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Phinney Baxter: The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1933, p. 109.