For other ships with the same name, see French ship Armide.
Model of her sister ship Jeanne d'Arc on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris, before the rear barbettes were deleted.
History
France
Name
Armide
Namesake
Armida
Builder
Rochefort
Laid down
1865
Launched
24 April 1867
Commissioned
20 July 1870
Fate
used as a target for gunnery trials, 1886
General characteristics
Class and type
Alma-class ironclad
Displacement
3,692 t (3,634 long tons)
Length
68.9 m (226 ft 1 in)
Beam
14.06 m (46 ft 2 in)
Draft
6.43 m (21 ft 1 in) (mean)
Installed power
4 boilers
1,585 ihp (1,182 kW)
Propulsion
1 shaft, 1 steam engine
Sail plan
Barque-rig
Speed
10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Range
1,310 nautical miles (2,430 km; 1,510 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement
316
Armament
6 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) Mle 1864 guns
4 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
Armor
Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in)
Barbettes: 100 mm (3.9 in)
Bulkheads: 120 mm (4.7 in)
The French ironclad Armide was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid-1860s. Placed into reserve after completion, she was first mobilized for the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. She spent the rest of her career in the Mediterranean and then in the Far East as flagship of the French squadrons there, until her decommissioning in 1880. Armide was use as a target for gunnery trials in 1886.
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