![]() Model of her sister ship Jeanne d'Arc on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris, before the rear barbettes were deleted.
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Name | Alma |
Namesake | Battle of Alma |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 1 October 1865 |
Launched | 26 November 1867 |
Commissioned | 1870 |
Fate | Sold May 1893 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Alma-class ironclad |
Displacement | 3,778 t (3,718 long tons) |
Length | 68.84 m (225 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 14.04 m (46 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 6.53 m (21 ft 5 in) (mean) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, steam engine |
Sail plan | Barque-rig |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Range | 1,360 nmi (2,520 km; 1,570 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 316 |
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Armor |
The French ironclad Alma was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1860s. The lead ship of her class, she was named after the 1854 Battle of Alma of the Crimean War. The ship spent her early career on the China Station and later supported the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881. She was condemned in 1886, but was not sold until 1893.