French ironclad Vengeur
Vengeur photographed while taking coal aboard from lighter moored to starboard | |
| History | |
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| France | |
| Name | Vengeur |
| Builder | Arsenal, Brest |
| Laid down | 1 December 1874 |
| Launched | 16 May 1878 |
| Commissioned | 15 January 1882 |
| Stricken | 20 June 1906 |
| Fate | Sold to be broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tempête class coastal defense ship |
| Displacement | 4,635 long tons (4,709 t) |
| Length | 78.6 m (257 ft 10 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 17.6 m (57 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 5.42 m (17.8 ft) |
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| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 3 compound steam engine |
| Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 174 |
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Vengeur was the second of two Tempête-class ironclad coastal defence ships served in the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the nineteenth century. Launched in 1878, the vessel was armed with two 340 mm (13 in) mounted in a single turret that was protected with armor that was 300 mm (11.8 in) thick as well as having an armored Belt between 250 and 340 mm (9.8 and 13.4 in) thick. The ship had a generally uneventful career, spending most of her career in reserve, except a year as part of the Escadre d'evolutions between 1884 and 1885, where she served alongside the faster and deeper-draft ironclad Tonnerre, and 1889, where she participated in a military exercise, successfully defending Cherbourg alongside fellow ironclad Tonnant. In 1906, the ship was struck and sold to be broken up.