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Formidable was an ironclad built for the French Navy between her keel laying in late 1879 and her completion in early 1889. She was the second and final member of the Amiral Baudin class. The ships of the class was designed in response to Italian naval expansion, and carried a main battery of three 370 mm (14.6 in) guns all mounted in open barbettes on the centerline. The armament was chosen after public pressure to compete with the very large guns mounted on the latest Italian ironclads.

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  • Formidable was an ironclad built for the French Navy between her keel laying in late 1879 and her completion in early 1889. She was the second and final member of the Amiral Baudin class. The ships of the class was designed in response to Italian naval expansion, and carried a main battery of three 370 mm (14.6 in) guns all mounted in open barbettes on the centerline. The armament was chosen after public pressure to compete with the very large guns mounted on the latest Italian ironclads. Formidable spent most of her career in the Mediterranean Fleet, where she conducted fleet training exercises each year. In 1891, she was involved in tests with tethered observation balloons. Her career passed fairly uneventfully, though she caused a grounding accident that involved two other vessels in 1895. She was modernized between 1897 and 1898, which included removing her center main battery gun and barbette and installing a battery of light quick-firing guns in its place. After returning to service, she was transferred to the Northern Squadron, based in the English Channel, where the routine of peacetime training maneuvers continued. Withdrawn from active duty in 1903, she briefly saw service in 1904 but was again removed from use thereafter and was stricken from the naval register in 1909 before being broken up thereafter. (en)
  • Le Formidable était un cuirassé d'escadre de classe Amiral Baudin lancé pour la Marine nationale française en 1885. Il a été démantelé en 1910 et démoli en 1911. (fr)
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  • 1889-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • 1879-01-10 (xsd:date)
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  • 1885-04-16 (xsd:date)
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  • *3 × Modèle 1875 guns *4 × Modèle 1884 guns *8 × Modèle 1881 guns *1 × gun *12 × 47 mm Hotchkiss revolver cannon *18 × Hotchkiss revolver cannon *6 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (en)
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  • *Belt: *Conning tower: *Barbettes: (en)
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  • 1889-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • France (en)
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  • Formidable (en)
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  • *12 × fire-tube boilers * (en)
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  • *2 × compound steam engines *2 × screw propellers (en)
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  • 1909-02-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Le Formidable était un cuirassé d'escadre de classe Amiral Baudin lancé pour la Marine nationale française en 1885. Il a été démantelé en 1910 et démoli en 1911. (fr)
  • Formidable was an ironclad built for the French Navy between her keel laying in late 1879 and her completion in early 1889. She was the second and final member of the Amiral Baudin class. The ships of the class was designed in response to Italian naval expansion, and carried a main battery of three 370 mm (14.6 in) guns all mounted in open barbettes on the centerline. The armament was chosen after public pressure to compete with the very large guns mounted on the latest Italian ironclads. (en)
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  • French ironclad Formidable (en)
  • Formidable (1885) (fr)
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