Algésiras-class ship of the line

	The Emperor's barge in front of Impérial in Brest, August 1858, by Alfred Bernier
Class overview
Name	Algésiras
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Hercule class; Napoléon;
Succeeded by	Ville de Nantes class
Built	1853–1865
In service	1856–1912
In commission	1856–1889
Completed	5
General characteristics (Algésiras as built)
Type	90-gun ship of the line
Displacement	5,121 t (5,040 long tons)
Length	71.23 m (233 ft 8 in) (waterline)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Draught	8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load)
Depth of hold	8.16 m (26 ft 9 in)
Installed power	8 boilers; 2,057–2,204 ihp (1,534–1,644 kW)
Propulsion	1 screw; 2 steam engines
Sail plan	Ship rigged
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	913
Armament	Lower gundeck: 18 × 36 pdr cannon; 16 × 223.3 mm (8.8 in) Paixhans guns; Upper gundeck: 34 × 30 pdr cannon; Quarterdeck and forecastle: 20 × 163 mm (6.4 in) Paixhans guns; 2 × 163 mm rifled muzzle-loading guns;

The Algésiras class consisted of five second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ships of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s. Most of the ships participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 or the Second French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s. Beginning in the mid-1860s, they were decommissioned or converted into troopships before being scrapped beginning in the early 1870s.

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