laststandonzombieisland

Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1880s-1930s and will profile a different ship each week.

– Christopher Eger

Here we have the Charles Martel class battleship (1883)

Charles Martel Battleship. of the French navy   Photographs and history of the French battleship of the 1890’s, Charles Martel was built at Brest and laid down in April 1891, and launched August 1893, completed June 1897.

Displacement: 11,693 tons, Speed: 18 knots.  Crew 644.  Armament: Two 12 inch / 45 cal. M1887  guns, Two 10.8 inch /45 calibre M1887  guns. and Eight 5.5 inch / 45 caliber guns QF M1888.  Four 9 pounder, and twelve (increased later two 16) 3 pounder.  Eight 1 pounder revolvers.   Two 18 inch torpedo Tubes (submerged.) did have two at AW but these were removed,.)
Scrapped sometime after 1922.