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CRUISERS

IPHIGÉNIE wooden cruiser (1883)

very similar Naïade 1880s

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Iphigénie     Arsenal de Brest 4/1877 1881 10/1883 stricken 1905

 

Displacement normal, t

3346

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

73.2 wl

Breadth, m

14.2

Draught, m

6.81 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2780

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal 400

Endurance, nm(kts) 4600(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 165/21 M1870, 18 x 1 - 139/21 M1870M, 2 x 1 - 100/27 M1875, 8 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 1 - 350 TT (aw, beam)

Complement

435

Project history: A wooden-hulled cruiser with ship rig, overhanging bow and stern, and short forecastle and poop. The funnel was abaft the mainmast. The 165mm were in embrasure ports under the forecastle with 2 139mm similarly under the poop, 4 on the upper deck and 12 on the main deck broadside.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Iphigénie later served, with a reduced armament, as a seagoing TS for midshipmen.

Iphigénie

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