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Océan class (sometimes called "États de Bourgogne class" or "Dauphin Royal class") – Three-deckers of 118 guns (usually called 120-gun), designed by Jacques-Noël Sané. Each carried 32 × 36-pdr guns on the lower deck, 34 × 24-pdr guns on the middle deck, 34 × 12-pdr guns on the upper deck, and 18 × 8-pdr guns on the gaillards .
The Océan-class ironclads were a class of three wooden-hulled armored frigates built for the French Navy in the mid to late 1860s. Océan attempted to blockade Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and Marengo participated in the French conquest of Tunisia in 1881.
The Océan-class ships of the line were a series of 118-gun three-decker ships of the line of the French Navy, designed by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané. Fifteen were completed from 1788 on, with the last one entering service in 1854; a sixteenth was never completed, and four more were never laid down.
1. That part of the ocean lying more than a few hundred nautical mile s from shore, and thus beyond the outer boundary of green water. 2. More generally, the open ocean or deep sea. blue-water navy 1. A navy capable of sustained operations in the open ocean, beyond a few hundred nautical miles from shore. 2.
from a dubious Old French adjective iroise, meaning "angry", referring to the rough seas (sometimes Angry Sea is found as an English language translation) [6] from Breton hirgwaz; hir "long" + gwaz "stream, channel" [4] From the Breton ervoas, or "deep", referring to the Atlantic Ocean, in contrast to the shallow English Channel [7]
Ocean class may refer to: Ocean ship, a class of cargo ships used by the British Ministry of War Transport in WWII; Océan-class ironclad, used by the French Navy; Océan-class ship of the line, used by the French Navy; Ocean class, a type of survey vessel used by the Russian Hydrographic Service
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