![]() A scale model of Flandre
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Name | Flandre |
Namesake | Flandre (Flanders) |
Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
Laid down | 28 January 1861 |
Launched | 12 June 1864 |
Commissioned | May 1865 |
Stricken | 12 November 1886 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1887 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Provence-class ironclad frigate |
Displacement | 5,810 t (5,720 long tons) |
Length | 82.9 m (272 ft) (o/a) |
Beam | 17.06 m (56 ft) |
Draft | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) (deep load) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 horizontal-return connecting rod-steam engine |
Sail plan | Barque-rig |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) (trials) |
Range | 2,410 nautical miles (4,460 km; 2,770 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 579–594 |
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The French ironclad Flandre was one of ten Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the 1860s. Commissioned in 1865, she was initially assigned to the Northern Squadron (Escadre du Nord) and sometimes served as a flagship. The ironclad played a minor role in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, blockading the North Sea coast of Prussia. Flandre was decommissioned after the war and remained in reserve for the next decade and a half. The ship was disarmed in 1884 and was scrapped three years later.