French ship Jean Bart (1852)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Jean Bart and French ship Donawerth.

File:Lebreton engraving-16.jpg The Jean Bart, drawing by Louis Le Breton
Career (France)
Namesake:	Jean Bart
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	26 January 1849
Launched:	14 September 1852
Fate:	scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement:	4 070 tonnes
Length:	60.50 metres
Beam:	16.28 metres
Draught:	7.40 metres
Propulsion:	3114 m² of sails
Complement:	810 to 846 men
Armament:	1824-1839: 30 × 30-pounders on lower deck 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks 1839-1840 26 × 30-pounders and 4 ×22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks
Armour:	6.97 cm of timber

The Jean Bart was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean Bart.

She took part in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) and the Battle of Kinburn (1855).

In 1856, she was fitted with a steam engine. From 1864, she was used as a school ship. She was renamed to Donawerth in September 1868, and was finally scrapped as Cyclope in 1886.

References

• Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I