French ship Algésiras (1855)

Algésiras was a second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ship of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s, lead ship of her class of five ships. The ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Algésiras.
Algésiras used as a school ship
History
Second French Empire
NameAlgésiras
NamesakeBattle of Algeciras
Ordered13 November 1852
BuilderArsenal de Toulon
Laid downApril 1853
Launched4 October 1855
CompletedMay 1856
Commissioned10 April 1856
Decommissioned10 February 1865
Reclassified
  • Converted into a transport, 1869–1870
  • As a torpedo training ship, April 1889
  • As an accommodation ship, after 20 November 1901
Stricken20 November 1901
FateDestroyed by fire, 25 November 1906
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeAlgésiras-class ship of the line
Displacement5,121 t (5,040 long tons)
Length71.23 m (233 ft 8 in) (waterline)
Beam16.8 m (55 ft 1 in)
Draught8.45 m (27 ft 9 in) (full load)
Depth of hold8.16 m (26 ft 9 in)
Installed power8 boilers; 2,057 ihp (1,534 kW)
Propulsion1 screw; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines
Sail planShip rigged
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement913
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
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