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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