French ship Impérial (1856)

History
France
Name	Impérial
Builder	Rochefort. Plans by Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Laid down	19 August 1853
Launched	15 November 1855
Stricken	15 November 1869
General characteristics
Class and type	Algésiras class ship of the line
Displacement	5160 tonnes
Length	71.6 m (235 ft)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draught	8.1 m (27 ft)
Propulsion	Sail (2010 m²); 3604 HP 8-boiler steam engine;
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	340 men
Armament	4 138mm guns; 4 revolver guns; 2 37mm guns;
Armour	timber

The Impérial was a 90-gun Algésiras-class steam ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

She was renamed to Jupiter in 1870, used as a barracks hulk, and eventually broken up around 1898. ^[1]

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 251. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.