Dévastation-class ironclad floating battery

	Lave in 1854
Class overview
Name	Dévastation class
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Palestro class
Built	1854–1855
In service	1855–1871
Completed	5
Scrapped	5
General characteristics
Type	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement	1,600–1,674 t (1,575–1,648 long tons)
Length	53 m (173 ft 11 in)
Beam	13.35 m (43 ft 10 in)
Draft	2.65–2.8 m (8.7–9.2 ft)
Installed power	150 nhp
Propulsion	single screw, Le Creuzot steam engine
Sail plan	three masts, 350 m2 (3,800 sq ft).
Speed	4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
Complement	282
Armament	16 × 50-pounder smoothbore guns; 2 × 12-pounder guns;
Armor	Hull: 110 mm (4.3 in)

The Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries were built for the attack of Russian coastal fortifications during the Crimean War. France had intended to build ten of these vessels, but in the time available was only able to construct five in French shipyards, of which the first three took part in the attack on Kinburn in 1855, and served in the Adriatic in June–July 1859 during the Italian war.

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