Embuscade-class ironclad floating battery

Class overview
Name	Palestro class
Builders	Arman Brothers, Bordeaux
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Arrogante class
Built	1862–1868
In service	1866–1889
Completed	4
Scrapped	4
General characteristics
Type	Ironclad floating battery
Displacement	1,615 t (1,589 long tons)
Length	39.65 m (130 ft 1 in)
Beam	15.8 m (51 ft 10 in)
Draft	3.52 m (11.5 ft) (mean)
Installed power	4 boilers 480 ihp (360 kW)
Propulsion	2 propellers, 2 return connecting rod engines
Sail plan	fore-and-aft
Speed	8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Range	670 nmi (1,240 km; 770 mi) at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	4 × 164.7 mm (6.48 in) Mle 1864 guns 4 × 164.7 mm Mle 1860 guns
Armor	Waterline belt: 140 mm (5.5 in) Battery: 110 mm (4.3 in)

The Embuscade class consisted of four ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy in the 1860s.

Ships

Construction data

Name	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Embuscade	25 February 1862	18 November 1865	September 1866	Scrapped, 1945
Refuge		1 May 1866	October 1867	Scrapped, 1945?
Protectrice		8 December 1866	August 1867	Scrapped, 1890
Imprenable	18 December 1867	February 1868	Scrapped, 1939