Embuscade-class ironclad floating battery

Class overview
Name	Palestro class
Builders	Arman Brothers, Bordeaux
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Arrogante class
Built	1862–1868
In service	1866–1889
Completed	4
Scrapped	4
General characteristics
Type	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement	1,615 t (1,589 long tons)
Length	39.65 m (130 ft 1 in)
Beam	15.8 m (51 ft 10 in)
Draft	3.52 m (11.5 ft) (mean)
Installed power	4 boilers; 480 ihp (360 kW);
Propulsion	2 propellers, 2 return connecting rod engines
Sail plan	fore-and-aft
Speed	8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Range	670 nmi (1,240 km; 770 mi) at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	4 × 164.7 mm (6.48 in) Mle 1864 guns; 4 × 164.7 mm Mle 1860 guns;
Armor	Waterline belt: 140 mm (5.5 in); Battery: 110 mm (4.3 in);

NamePalestro class

Operators

The Embuscade class consisted of four ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy in the 1860s.

Name	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Embuscade	25 February 1862	18 November 1865	September 1866	Scrapped, 1945
Refuge		1 May 1866	October 1867	Scrapped, 1945?
Protectrice		8 December 1866	August 1867	Scrapped, 1890
Imprenable	18 December 1867	February 1868	Scrapped, 1939

v t e Ironclad warships of France
Broadside ironclads	Gloire Couronne^S Magenta Provence Belliqueuse^S
Central battery ironclads	Alma Océan Friedland^S La Galissonnière Richelieu^S Colbert Redoutable^S Dévastation
Barbette ironclads	Amiral Duperré^S Bayard Vauban Terrible Amiral Baudin Hoche^S Marceau Charles Martel^X
Casemate ironclads	Rochambeau^S
Coastal defense ironclads	Taureau^S Onondaga^S Cerbère Tonnerre Tempête Tonnant^S Furieux^S Jemmapes Bouvines Henri IV^S
Large armoured gunboats	Fusée Achéron Phlégéton
Floating batteries	Dévastation Palestro Arrogante Embuscade
S Single ship of class X Cancelled

References

Class overview


Name	Palestro class
Builders	Arman Brothers, Bordeaux
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Arrogante class
Built	1862–1868
In service	1866–1889
Completed	4
Scrapped	4


General characteristics
Type	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement	1,615 t (1,589 long tons)
Length	39.65 m (130 ft 1 in)
Beam	15.8 m (51 ft 10 in)
Draft	3.52 m (11.5 ft) (mean)
Installed power	4 boilers 480 ihp (360 kW)
Propulsion	2 propellers, 2 return connecting rod engines
Sail plan	fore-and-aft
Speed	8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Range	670 nmi (1,240 km; 770 mi) at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	4 × 164.7 mm (6.48 in) Mle 1864 guns 4 × 164.7 mm Mle 1860 guns
Armor	Waterline belt: 140 mm (5.5 in) Battery: 110 mm (4.3 in)

v t e Embuscade-class ironclad floating batteries
Embuscade Refuge Protectrice Imprenable
List of ironclad warships of France