French ship Donawerth (1854)

	The Jean Bart, sister-ship of Donawerth. Drawing by Louis Le Breton
History
France
Namesake	Jean Bart
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	1827
Launched	15 February 1854
Fate	Scrapped 1897
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4 070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m² of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounders on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounders and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounders on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

The Donawerth was a 90-gun Suffren class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Her keel was laid in Lorient in 1827. She stayed abandoned in an unbuilt state for several years before being completed as a steam ship. She was eventually launched on 15 February 1854.

She took part in the Crimean War as a transport.

In 1860, she served off Beirut with Redoutable.[1]

In 1868, she was renamed to Jean Bart, and used as a school ship.

She was again renamed to Cyclope in 1886, and eventually broken up in 1897.

Citations

Roche, vol.1, p.373

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Jean Bart, netmarine.net

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[roche373-1] Roche, vol.1, p.373