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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Provence			Arsenal de Toulon	3/1861	29.10.1863	3/1864	stricken 5.1886
Flandre			Arsenal de Cherbourg	28.1.1861	21.6.1864	5/1865	stricken 11.1886
Savoie			Arsenal de Toulon	3/1861	29.9.1864	4/1865	stricken 11.1888
Magnanime			Arsenal de Brest	27.2.1861	19.8.1864	11/1865	stricken 6.1882
Valereuse			Arsenal de Brest	13.5.1861	18.8.1864	2/1867	stricken 2.1886
Gauloise			Arsenal de Brest	21.1.1861	26.4.1865	4/1867	condemned 10.1883
Guyenne			Arsenal de Rochefort	11.2.1861	6.9.1865	4/1867	stricken 10.1882
Revanche			Arsenal de Toulon	3/1861	28.12.1865	5/1867	hulk 1889
Surveillante			Arsenal de Lorient	28.1.1861	18.8.1864	5/1867	stricken 5.1887

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5700 - 6122
Displacement full, t
Length, m	80.0 wl 82.9 oa
Breadth, m	17.1
Draught, m	8.18 - 8.53 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	Provence, Flandre, Guyenne, Surveillante: 1 2-cyl HSE return connecting rod, 9 oval boilers Gauloise, Revanche: 1 3-cyl HSE return connecting rod, 9 oval boilers Savoie, Magnanime, Valereuse: 1 3-cyl HC, 9 oval boilers
Power, h. p.	3050 - 3600
Max speed, kts	13 - 14.3
Fuel, t	coal 507 - 650
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	wrought iron; belt: 150, battery: 110, CT: 100
Armament	Flandre, Provence: 2 x 1 - 223/12 shell SBML, 10 x 1 - 194/16 50pdr SBML, 22 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR Gauloise, Guyenne, Revanche, Surveillante, Valereuse and m. b. Magnanime, Savoie: 4 x 1 - 240/18 M1864-66 MLR, 7 x 1 - 194/19 M1864-66 MLR, 6 x 1 - 165/17 M1858 MLR
Complement	580 - 594

Standard scale images

Project history

These ships, the most numerous class of French battleships, were ordered as improved Gloire on 16.11.1860. All were wooden hulled. In Flandre and Provence the two howitzers and two 165mm guns were on the upper deck, as were four 194mm in the rest of the class. There was little point in fitting compound engines with 1.8 kgf/m² boiler pressure and jet condensers, and single expansion engines worked better. Metacentric height was about 1.4m, and the class were generally barque-rigged with about 1950 m² of sail.

Ship protection

The sides were completely armoured above water with 150mm iron on 750mm wood backing, battery had 110mm iron protection on the 610mm wood backing. The CT was apparently roofed and had 100mm sides.

Modernizations

1868, Revanche, Valereuse: - 6 x 1 - 194/19; + 4 x 1 - 240/18 M1864-66 MLR

1869-1870, Provence, Flandre, Savoie, Magnanime, Surveillante were armed with 8 x 1 - 240/18 M1864-66 MLR, 4 x 1 - 194/19 M1864-66 MLR

Naval service

The breech blew off a 240mm gun in Valeureuse in 1870, and a bad boiler explosion occurred in Revanche in 1877.