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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CRUISERS

BRUIX screw sloops (1868-1873)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Boursaint     Arsenal de Rochefort 1868 1872 1873 stricken 1892
Bruix     Bordeaux 1865 1867 1868 stricken 1882

 

Displacement normal, t

767

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

61.2 wl

Breadth, m

8.53

Draught, m

3.89 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

680

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 165/18 M1858-60 MLR, 4 x 1 - 120/16 M1858-60 MLR

Complement

94

Project history: Ram-bowed, wooden-hulled sloops with iron beams and braces and rigged as barques without royals. Boursaint later mounted 1-5.5in M1870, 2-3.9in and 4-lpdr revolvers.

Modernizations: 1870s, Boursaint: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 120/16; + 1 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 2 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service: No significant events.

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