An item dated Toulon the 21st reported that the floating battery Arrogante was stranded near the Heyerische (?) Islands. Of her crew numbering 122 men drowned 38 men including all her officers.(1)
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1.Of the Arrogante-class with as sister ships the Implacable and Opiniatre. She was laid down in 1861 by Grouin, launched in June 1864, completed in January a year later and finally stricken in 1811. Iron-hulled. With a displacement of 1.490 tons and as dimensions 144’4” x 48’5”x 8’10”. The horsepower of 470 ihp allowed a speed of 6,7-7 knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 40 tons. She was seven weeks after her stranding refloated. The armament consisted of 9-6.4” M1864 guns placed in a casemate protected by 4.3” thick wrought iron armour and further more she possessed a 4.7” thick armour belt.
