Parseval 1885
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Bouvet | Arsenal de Rochefort | 1872 | 5/1876 | 1877 | wrecked 12.1889 | ||
| Parseval, 1895- Amiral Parseval | Arsenal de Rochefort | 1872 | 1879 | 1880 | stricken 1900 |
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Displacement normal, t |
856 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
60.8 wl |
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Breadth, m |
8.56 |
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Draught, m |
3.96 max |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
800 |
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Max speed, kts |
11.4 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 150 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
Parseval: 4 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 5 x 5 - 37/20 M1885 Bouvet: 3 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 1 x 1 - 100/27 M1875, 6 x 5 - 37/20 M1885 |
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Complement |
119 |
Project history: Wooden-hulled ships wilth iron beams and braces and rigged as barques without royals. There was a short forecastle with ram bow and overhanging stern and one funnel which was raked; as were the masts. In Parseval, completed in 1880, the 139mm were on the centreline, forward and aft with two amidships, while Bouvet, completed three years earlier, had one on the centreline between main and mizzenmasts with two on the broadside before the funnel and the 100mm on the forecastle.
Modernizations: 1890s: - 2 x 1 - 100/26, 8 x 5 - 37/20; + 12 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (aw, beam)
Naval service: Bouvet went ashore on Zanzibar in December 1889 and, though refloated, was never fully repaired and finally stricken in 1891.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014