![]() Model of her sister Jeanne d'Arc on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris, before the rear barbettes were deleted
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Name | Montcalm |
Namesake | Louis de Montcalm de Saint Véran |
Builder | Rochefort |
Laid down | 26 October 1865 |
Launched | 16 October 1868 |
Commissioned | 1870 |
Fate | Condemned 2 April 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Alma-class ironclad |
Displacement | 3,889 t (3,828 long tons) |
Length | 68.75 m (225 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 14.13 m (46 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 6.66 m (21 ft 10 in) (mean) |
Installed power | 1,830 ihp (1,360 kW) |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
Sail plan | Barque-rig |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Range | 1,460 nmi (2,700 km; 1,680 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 316 |
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The French ironclad Montcalm was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid-1860s. She was named after Major General Montcalm who lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. She played a minor role in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 where she captured one Prussian sailing ship. Montcalm spent most of her later career abroad, either in Chinese waters or in the Pacific Ocean. The ship was condemned in 1891.