Station/Cruising Battleships: Photo Gallery

Belliqueuse (Ironclad corvette, wood hull) during a visit to Hobson's Bay, Melbourne, Australia, between 25 November and 3 December 1870. Her main battery consisted of four 194mm and four 164.7mm guns in an armored broadside battery and one 164.7mm gun on deck at each end of the ship. (Photo: State Library Victoria from The Illustrated Australian News, 2 January 1871, page 13)

Armide (Ironclad corvette). (Photo: NH 74811 from ONI album of French warships)

Atalante (Ironclad corvette) in Fitzroy Dock on Cockatoo Island near Sydney, Australia, in August 1873. (Photo from a glass plate negative by landscape photographer Beaufoy Merlin in the State Library of New South Wales, SLNSW_FL1233688)

Atalante (Ironclad corvette) in Fitzroy Dock in August 1873. She was then flagship of the Pacific Squadron. (Photo from a glass plate negative by Beaufoy Merlin in the State Library of New South Wales, SLNSW_FL1247228)

Atalante (Ironclad corvette) in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in 1873. (Photo: Holtermann Collection in the State Library of New South Wales, SLNSW_FL1247035)

Montcalm (Ironclad corvette) in 1873. (Photo: Shipscribe)

La Galissonnière (Ironclad corvette) in the roadstead at Brest. Photo by Émile Mage. (Photo: Wikimedia from Musée Bretagne FLMjo134341)

La Galissonnière (Ironclad corvette) at Brest. (Photo: Facebook by Vladimir Yakubov on 31.5.2023)

Victorieuse (Ironclad corvette). Single screw version of La Galissonnière. (Photo: NH 66029, Farenholt Collection from ONI)

Triomphante (Ironclad corvette). (Photo: NH 74937 from ONI album of French warships)

Triomphante (Ironclad corvette). (Photo: NH 74968 from ONI album of French warships)

Triomphante (Ironclad corvette) housed over as headquarters ship of the naval division at Saigon probably after being struck in 1896. She was sold in 1903. (Photo: Facebook by Vladimir Yakubov on 11.11.2022)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) on the ways shortly before launching. She is in an extension of the Brest dockyard upriver from the main arsenal that was fortified in 1777. The side planking of her temporary shiphouse has been removed but the roof remains in place. (Photo: Wikimedia from Archives M&M Brest 2fi06388)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) on the ways on 25 March 1880, now without her protective roof. She is on one of the three remaining cales (shipways) de la Boucherie that were built in the 1830s in the upriver extension of the arsenal. (Photo: Wikimedia from Archives M&M Brest 2fi06390)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) on the ways on 26 March 1880 with temporary covers added over her barbettes. A fourth cale de la Boucherie to the left of her shipway was removed circa the 1870s. (Photo: Wikimedia from Archives M&M Brest 2fi06391)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) sliding down the ways on 27 March 1880 with many spectators looking on. To the right is the prison hulk Veilleur ex Duquesne, and to the left is the temporary shiphouse for Amiral Baudin on another of the cales de la Boucherie. (Photo: Wikimedia from Archives M&M Brest 2Fi06392)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) afloat on the right after her launching. In the foreground is Bretagne (i) in the early stages of dismantlement. Behind her are the 2nd class cruiser Nielly ready for launching and the shiphouse for Amiral Baudin, each on a cale de la Boucherie, and to their left is the shiphouse for the 1st class coast defense ship Terrible on a cale du Bocage. (Photo: Reddit by WarshipPorn ca. 2022, also Wikimedia from Archives M&M Brest 2fi06382 and 2fi06384)

Turenne (2nd rank ironclad). (Photo: NH 66099, Farenholt Collection from ONI)

Turenne (2nd rank ironclad). (Photo: NH 92043, courtesy Paul Silverstone)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad). (Photo: NH 00032, from Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad) "returning to France the mortal remains of Admiral Courbet." (Photo: NH 74931 from ONI album of French warships)

Bayard (2nd rank ironclad). (Photo: NH 66059, Farenholt Collection from ONI)

Duguesclin (2nd rank ironclad) with original rig. (Photo: NH 74969 from ONI album of French warships)

Duguesclin (2nd rank ironclad) after launch. (Photo: Facebook by Andrey Myatishkin on 18.5.2023 and Wikimedia from SHD Rochefort MR_5_G_167)

Duguesclin (2nd rank ironclad) with original rig. (Photo: Facebook by A. Myatishkin on 31.7.2021 and Wikimedia from SHD Rochefort MR_5_G_168)

Duguesclin or Vauban (2nd rank ironclad) with original rig, deck view looking aft at Toulon. (Photo: NH 74884 from ONI album of French warships)

Vauban (2nd rank ironclad) with military rig. (Photo: NH 66028, Farenholt Collection from ONI)

Duguesclin (2nd rank ironclad) with military rig. (Photo: NH 66072, Farenholt Collection from ONI)