French ship Impérial (1856)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Second French Empire | |
| Name | Impérial |
| Ordered | 12 July 1853 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Brest |
| Laid down | 19 August 1853 |
| Launched | 15 September 1856 |
| Completed | February 1858 |
| Commissioned | 20 February 1858 |
| Renamed | Jupiter, 19 September 1870 |
| Reclassified | As a barracks ship, 1869 |
| Stricken | 15 November 1869 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1897 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Algésiras-class |
| 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; 3,603 PS (2,650 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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Impérial 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 the Second French intervention in Mexico in 1862. She was scrapped in 1897.