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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CRUISERS

GUICHEN screw sloops (1866-1868)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bouvet     Arsenal de Rochefort 1863 5/1865 1866 wrecked 17.9.1871
Bruat     Arsenal de Rochefort 1866 10/1867 1868 hulk 1886
Guichen     Arsenal de Rochefort 1863 1865 1866 stricken 1888

 

Displacement normal, t

748 - 787

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

55.6 wl

Breadth, m

8.56

Draught, m

3.94 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HC, 2 oval boilers

Power, h. p.

575

Max speed, kts

10.7

Fuel, t

coal 90 - 100

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

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

Complement

85 - 99

Project history: Barque-rigged wooden hulled sloops with clipper bows and raked masts and funnel.

Modernizations: 1870s, Guichen: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 120/16; + 1 x 1 - 165/21 M1870, 2 x 1 - 139/21 M1870

1870s, Bruat: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 120/16; + 3 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 1 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, 3 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service: Bouvet wrecked near Haiti17.9.1871.

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