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French ship Impérial (1856)

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Name
  
Impérial

Struck
  
15 November 1869

Construction started
  
19 August 1853

Length
  
72 m

Draft
  
8.1 m

Laid down
  
19 August 1853

Displacement
  
5160 tonnes

Launched
  
15 November 1855

Weight
  
5,160 tons

Builder
  
Rochefort. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme

Class and type
  
Algésiras class ship of the line

The Impérial was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Impérial took part in the French intervention in Mexico.

She was renamed to Jupiter in 1870, used as a barracks hulk, and eventually broken up around 1898.

References

French ship Impérial (1856) Wikipedia


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