French ship Impérial (1856)

Impérial was one of five second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered Algésiras-class ships of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s. The ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and the Second French intervention in Mexico in 1862. She was scrapped in 1897.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Impérial and French ship Jupiter.
The Emperor's barge in front of Impérial in Brest, August 1858, by Alfred Bernier
History
Second French Empire
NameImpérial
Ordered12 July 1853
BuilderArsenal de Brest
Laid down19 August 1853
Launched15 September 1856
CompletedFebruary 1858
Commissioned20 February 1858
RenamedJupiter, 19 September 1870
ReclassifiedAs a barracks ship, 1869
Stricken15 November 1869
FateScrapped, 1897
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeAlgésiras-class
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; 3,603 PS (2,650 kW)
Propulsion1 screw; 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines
Sail planShip rigged
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 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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