French ironclad Couronne

Postcard of Couronne at anchor
Class overview
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Gloire class
Succeeded by	Magenta class
Built	1859–1862
In service	1862–1931
In commission	1862–1908
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
History
Name	Couronne
Namesake	Crown of Napoleon III
Ordered	4 March 1858
Builder	Arsenal de Lorient
Cost	6,018,885 francs
Laid down	14 February 1859
Launched	28 March 1861
Commissioned	2 February 1862
Out of service	Hulked, 1 September 1909
Reclassified	As gunnery training ship, 1885
Fate	Scrapped, 1934
General characteristics (as completed)
Type	Armoured frigate
Displacement	6,428 t (6,326 long tons)
Length	80.85 m (265 ft 3 in)
Beam	16.7 m (54 ft 9 in)
Draught	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Depth of hold	9.7 m (31 ft 10 in)
Installed power	8 oval boilers 2,597 PS (1,910 kW)
Propulsion	1 × shaft; 1 × HRCR-steam engine
Sail plan	Barquentine rigged
Speed	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Range	2,410 nautical miles (4,460 km; 2,770 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	570
Armament	30 × 164.7 mm (6.5 in) rifled breech-loading guns
Armour	Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) Deck: 12.7 mm (0.5 in)

The French ironclad Couronne ("Crown") was the first iron-hulled ironclad warship built for the French Navy in 1859–1862. She was the first such ship to be laid down, although the British armoured frigate HMS Warrior was completed first. The ship participated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, but saw no combat. She was served as a gunnery training ship from 1885 to 1908 before she was hulked the following year and became a barracks ship in Toulon. Couronne was scrapped in 1934, over 70 years after she was completed.