Océan-class ironclad
Model of Océan on display at the Musée de la Marine, Paris | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Océan class |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Provence class |
| Succeeded by | Friedland |
| Built | 1865–1875 |
| In service | 1870–1897 |
| In commission | 1870–1895 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Scrapped | 3 |
| General characteristics (Océan as built) | |
| Type | Ironclad |
| Displacement | 7,749 t (7,627 long tons) |
| Length | 86.2 m (282 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 17.52 m (57 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 9.09 m (29.8 ft) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft; 1 compound steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barque or barquentine-rig |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | approximately 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 750–778 |
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| Armor | |
The Océan-class ironclads were a class of three wooden-hulled armored frigates built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s. Océan attempted to blockade Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and Marengo participated in the French conquest of Tunisia in 1881. Suffren was often used as the flagship for the Cherbourg Division, the Channel Division, Mediterranean Squadron and the Northern Squadron during her career. The ships were discarded during the 1890s.