Croiseur cuirassé de 1ére classe "Le Redoutable"

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Battleship «Redoutable» - steel battleship with central battery, built for the French Navy in 1873-1878, respectively. The first steel warship in the world. Actively served in the 1880-1890's in the Mediterranean. Decommissioned in 1910 and sold at slom.Franko-Prussian War and its heavy financial implications for France has led to serious delays in the development of the French armored fleet. Ships laid down in the 1867-1869 years, were completed very slowly and entered into operation already obsolete. Of the seven battleships ocean, filled up the French fleet in the years 1871-1878, six had a wooden hull and only one zheleznyy.Bronenosets, called "Redutabl", was laid at the shipyard in Lorient in August 1873. He became the first ocean battleship laid down after the Franco-Prussian War, and the first ship built with significant use of stali.Konstruktivno "Redutabl" developed the project "Colbert." He had a displacement of 9224 tons, with a length of 97.13 meters, 19.