Bélier-class ram
Cerbère and Bélier | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bélier class |
| Builders | |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Taureau |
| Built | 1865–1874 |
| In service | 1868–1897 |
| Planned | 4 |
| Completed | 4 |
| Scrapped | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ironclad ram |
| Displacement | 3,589 tonnes (3,532 long tons) |
| Length | 72 m (236 ft 3 in) (oa) |
| Beam | 16.14 m (52 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 5.83 m (19 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws; 2 × return connecting rod engines |
| Speed | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 147 |
| Armament | 2 × 240 mm (9.4 in) guns |
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The Bélier class, sometimes called the Cerbère class, consisted of four ironclad rams built for the French Navy in the 1870s.