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French ship Jean Bart (1852)

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Namesake
  
Jean Bart

Fate
  
scrapped

Draught
  
7.40 m (24.3 ft)

Launched
  
14 September 1852

Weight
  
4,070 tons

Draft
  
7.4 m

Laid down
  
26 January 1849

Beam
  
16.28 m (53.4 ft)

Construction started
  
26 January 1849

Length
  
60 m

Displacement
  
4.07 million kg

Builder
  
Lorient

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Class and type
  
Suffren class ship of the line

The Jean Bart was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean Bart.

She took part in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) and the Battle of Kinburn (1855).

In 1856, she was fitted with a steam engine. From 1864, she was used as a training ship. She was renamed to Donawerth in September 1868, and was finally scrapped as Cyclope in 1886.

References

French ship Jean Bart (1852) Wikipedia


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