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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

CRUISERS

LIMIER wooden cruisers (1868-1869)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D'Estrées     Arsenal de Cherbourg 1864 1867 1869 stricken 1891
Hamelin     Arsenal de Lorient 1864 1866 1868 hulk 1889
L'Hermitte     Arsenal de Brest 1864 1867 1869 wrecked 1874
Limier     Arsenal de Brest 1864 1866 1868 stricken 1887
Volta     Arsenal de Cherbourg 1864 1867 1869 stricken 1892

 

Displacement normal, t

1323

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

63.4 wl

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

4.47 - 4.85 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 HC, 2 oval boilers

Power, h. p.

1000 - 1100

Max speed, kts

12 - 12.5

Fuel, t

coal 200-235

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 165/18 M1864/66, 4 x 1 - 139/18 M1864/66

Complement

154

Project history: Wooden hull. Mostly rigged as barques.

Modernizations: 1870s, D'Estrées, Hamelin: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 139/18; + 1 x 1 - 165/21 M1870, 5 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

1870s, Limier, Volta: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 139/18; + 6 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service: L'Hermitte wrecked in 1874.

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