The Vauban class, sometimes referred to as the Duguesclin class, was a pair of two ironclad barbette ships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s...

Vauban was the lead ship of the Vauban class of ironclad barbette ships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and 1880s. Intended for service in...

Vauban: French ironclad Vauban, lead ship of the Vauban-class ironclad launched in 1882 and stricken in 1905 French destroyer Vauban, a Guépard-class...

was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and 1880s; she was the second and final member of the Vauban class. Intended...

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result...

France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...

was designed as a "station ironclad", smaller versions of the first-rate vessels built for the main fleet. The Vauban class was a scaled down variant of...

The Terrible class was a group of four ironclad barbette ships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The class consisted of Terrible...

The Bayard class was a pair of two ironclad warships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The class comprised two ships: Bayard...

Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line Duguesclin (1848), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line Duguesclin (1883), a Vauban-class station ironclad (cuirassé...

ironclad Couronne was re-armed with eight 24 C modèle 1870 guns in April 1876. On smaller units, the gun was used as main armament. The Vauban-class ironclads...

design; most of the French ironclads built in the 1880s were developed from these two designs. The Bayard and Vauban classes, intended for overseas deployments...

called the Darse Vauban or the Darse Neuve, and shipyard, designed by his commissioner of fortifications, Vauban. In 1697, Vauban built the impressive...

designs to be produced well into the 20th century. With the introduction of ironclad warships, the definition was widened to include a protected space for guns...

purpose-built steam-powered battleship. Gloire became the first seagoing ironclad when she was launched in 1853. In 1863, the French Navy launched Plongeur...

Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their Design, Construction and Operations. Vol. I: Armourclad Fusō to Kongō Class Battle...

the Second Squadron for the maneuvers, along with the ironclads Bayard, Duguesclin, and Vauban, the unprotected cruiser Rigault de Genouilly, the torpedo...

These monitors were turreted ironclad warships (inspired and named by the famous precedent-setting USS Monitor ironclad warship of the Battle of Hampton...

Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their Design, Construction and Operations. Vol. I: Armourclad Fusō to Kongō Class Battle...

latter half of the 17th century, the French engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban introduced a more systematic and scientific approach to attacking gunpowder...

guesswork. In the latter half of the 17th century, the French engineer Vauban introduced a more systematic and scientific approach to attacking gunpowder...

of the 2nd Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet, along with the ironclads Bayard, Vauban, and Duguesclin. The ships concentrated off Oran, French Algeria...

Western Pacific) and serve as its flagship, where she replaced the old ironclad Vauban. After departing on 6 April, she reached Saigon in French Indochina...

yet built in Europe. It also cast a cylinder for the 540 hp engine of the Vauban. It was the biggest cylinder yet cast in Europe and required 18,500 kg of...