Palestro-class ironclad floating battery

The Palestro class consisted of four ironclad floating batteries built for the French Navy in 1859–1862 to replace the Crimean War-built Dévastation class because of fears that the 1855 ships would deteriorate because they had been hastily built with green wood that was prone to rot quickly. Saigon caught fire and sank in 1863, but was salvaged and repaired. Pei-ho was struck from the navy list in 1869, but the others were commissioned during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.

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1862  Wikimedia, Wikidata
4 produced, 
ship, floating battery, French Navy, 

Arrgoante-class floating battery, Embuscade-class floating battery, Fusée-class gunboat, 

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Paixhans (1862)

PaixhanFloatingBatteries

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Paixhans (1862)		Commons
commons	image		PaixhanFloatingBatteries		Commons