French battleship Dévastation (1879)

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Name:	Dévastation
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	20 December 1875
Launched:	19 August 1879
Completed:	15 July 1882
Out of service:	1922
Fate:	Scrapped 1923
General characteristics
Class and type:	Dévastation class battleship
Type:	Battleship with central battery and barbettes
Displacement:	9,659 tonnes; 10,090 tonnes full load
Length:	95 m between perpendiculars; 98.70 m waterline; 10.25 m overall
Beam:	21.25 m
Draught:	7.51 m loaded draught forward; 8.10 m loaded draught aft; 7.80 m loaded draught amidships
Depth of hold:	7.34 m
Installed power:	12 boilers, 2 Woolf triple expansion engines totally 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW)
Propulsion:	twin screw (5.24 m diameter) + sail
Sail plan:	ship rig, sail area 1,833 m²
Speed:	15 knots at full load (steam)
Range:	3,100 nautical miles at 10 knots (steam)
Complement:	689
Armament:	As built:; 4 × 34cm/18 model 1875; 4 × 27cm/18 model 1870M; 6 × 14cm model 1870M; 18 × 37mm Hotchkiss revolving cannon; 4 × 14in torpedo tubes ; State in May 1896:; 4 × 320mm/25 model 1870-81; 4 × 274.4mm model 1875; 6 × 138.6mm; 2 × 65mm; 6 × 47mm QF; 20 × 37mm QF; 2 × 14in torpedo tubes ; After March 1902 refit:; 4 × 274.4mm model 1893; 2 × 240mm/40 model 1893/96; 10 × 100mm model 1891 and 1892; 14 × 47mm QF; 2 × 37mm QF
Armour:	wrought iron; 38cm belt amidships; 24cm redoubt; 6cm main deck

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Dévastation.

The Dévastation was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy.

She was used as a school ship for manoeuvres.

Commanding officers of Dévastation

Date	Commanding Officer
6 October 1880	Captain Rallier^[1]
18 August 1882	Captain Boucheron de Boissondy^[1]
16 December 1882	Captain Olliver^[1]
25 December 1884	Captain Dupuis^[1]
31 January 1885	Captain Le Bourgeois^[1]
11 December 1886	Captain Dieulouard^[1]
27 December 1887	Captain Boulineau^[1]
26 November 1890	Captain Floucaud de Fourcroy^[1]
27 August 1891	Captain Gigon^[1]
24 September 1892	Captain Caillard^[1]
20 February 1893	Captain Marquis^[1]
13 June 1893	Captain Pissere^[1]
9 March 1895	Captain Antoine^[1]
19 March 1896	Captain Bellue^[1]
20 May 1897	Captain Cordier^[1]
29 November 1897	Captain Fortin^[1]
26 January 1901	Captain Simon (EP)^[1]

Start	End	Flag Officer
1 August 1882	14 November 1882	Vice-Admiral Thomasset, C-in-C, Reserve Squadron^[1]
17 February 1885	17 January 1886	Rear-Admiral Rallier, Evolutionary Squadron^[1]
17 January 1886	18 December 1887	Rear-Admiral Devaresse, Evolutionary Squadron^[1]
18 December 1887	27 October 1889	Rear-Admiral Alquier, Evolutionary Squadron^[1]
15 October 1892	11 March 1893	Rear-Admiral Buge, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron^[1]
12 March 1893	17 June 1893	Rear-Admiral Dupont, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron^[1]
18 June 1893	14 March 1895	Rear-Admiral Gadaud, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron^[1]
14 March 1895	5 May 1896	Rear-Admiral Maigret, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron^[1]
5 May 1896	7 February 1897	Rear-Admiral Pottier, commanding a division of the E. Mediterranean & Levant Squadron^[1]
20 January 1898	14 March 1898	Rear-Admiral Godin, commanding the Division of the Reserve^[1]

Note: Rear-admirals of the Evolutionary Squadron were under the command the vice-admiral of the squadron.

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 ^1.14 ^1.15 ^1.16 ^1.17 ^1.18 ^1.19 ^1.20 ^1.21 ^1.22 ^1.23 ^1.24 ^1.25 ^1.26 ^1.27 ^1.28 ^1.29 ^1.30 ^1.31 ^1.32 ^1.33 ^1.34 ^1.35 ^1.36 ^1.37 ^1.38 ^1.39 ^1.40 ^1.41 Saibène, Marc, Les Cuirasses Redoutable, Dévastation, Courbet, Programme de 1872, pub Marine Édition, ISBN 2-909675-16-5
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Chesnau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-83170-302-4

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