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 | | Laid down | 1872 at Lorient | | Launched | 1876 | | Fate | Decommissioned 1910 | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 9200 tons. | | Length: | 100,70 m | | Width: | 19,76 m | | Beam: | 64 ft 8 in (19.7 m) | | Draught: | 7,80 m | | Propulsion: | Sail & Compound steam engine | | Power: | 6,071 hp (4527 kW) | | Speed: | 14.66 knots (27 km/h) | | Range: | 2,800 miles at 10 knots (19 km/h) | | Complement: | 706 officers and men | | Armament: | - 7 x 27 cm breech-loading/rifled guns
- 6 x 14 cm breech-loading/rifled guns
- Hotchkiss quick-firing guns
- Hotchkiss machine guns
- 4 torpedo tubes
| | Armour: | 35 cm (belt) | The Redoutable (1876) was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material (Conway Marine, "Steam, Steel and Shellfire"). Image File history File links LeRedoutablePhoto. ...
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Lorient is a commune and a seaport of Brittany, France, in the Morbihan département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
The Hotchkiss gun can refer to different products of the Hotchkiss arms company starting in the late 1800s. ...
The Hotchkiss gun can refer to different products of the Hotchkiss arms company starting in the late 1800s. ...
A barbette is the fixed area underneath a rotating gun turret on a warship. ...
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the maritime arm of the French military and is the largest Western European navy in terms of number of active-duty vessels. ...
The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...
Compared to iron, steel allowed for greater structural strength for a lower weight. France was the first country to manufacture steel in large quantities, using the Siemens process. At that time, steel plates still had some defects, and the outer bottom plating of the ship was made of wrought iron. General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ...
Wilhelm Siemens Carl Wilhelm Siemens (en: Charles William Siemens) (April 4, 1823 – November 19, 1883) was a German engineer. ...
A wrought iron railing in Troy, New York. ...
Redoutable formed part of the French Mediterranean squadron.
- "The Redoutable is built partly of iron and partly of steel and is similar in many respects to the ironclads Devastation and Courbet of the same fleet, although rather smaller. She is completely belted with 14 in. armor, with a 15 in. backing, and has the central battery armored with plates of 9½ in. in thickness.
- The engines are two in number, horizontal, and of the compound two cylinder type, developing a horse power of 6,071, which on the trial trip gave a speed of 14.66 knots. Five hundred and ten tons of coal are carried in the bunkers, which at a speed of 10 knots should enable the ship to make a voyage of 2,800 nautical miles. Torpedo defense netting is fitted, and there are three masts with military tops carrying Hotchkiss revolver machine guns.
- The offensive power of the ship consists of seven breechloading rifled guns of 27 centimeters (10.63 in.), and weighing 24 tons each, six breechloading rifled guns of 14 centimeters (5.51 in.), and quick-firing and machine guns of the Hotchkiss systems. There are in addition four torpedo discharge tubes, two on each side of the ship.
The positions of the guns are as follows: Four of 27 centimeters in the central battery, two on each broadside; three 27 centimeter guns on the upper deck in barbettes, one on each side amidships, and one aft. The 14 centimeter guns are in various positions on the broadsides, and the machine guns are fitted on deck, on the bridges, and in the military tops, four of them also being mounted on what is rather a novelty in naval construction, a gallery running round the outside of the funnel, which was fitted when the ship was under repairs some months ago. The Hotchkiss gun can refer to different products of the Hotchkiss arms company starting in the late 1800s. ...
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A barbette is the fixed area underneath a rotating gun turret on a warship. ...
- There are three electric light projectors, one forward on the upper deck, one on the bridge just forward of the funnel, and one in the mizzen top." (1881 Scientific American)
The Redoutable was present during the negotiation of the treaty of the 7 September 1901 with China. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ...
1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
All-steel warships were later built by the Royal Navy, with the dispatch vessels Iris and Mercury, laid down in 1875-1876. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
See also
At least two vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Redoutable. ...
References - "Steam, Steel and Shellfire, The steam warship 1815-1905", Conway's History of the Ship ISBN 0785814132
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