Bombe 1887
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Bombe | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 11/1883 | 16.4.1885 | 10/1887 | stricken 1911 | ||
| Couleuvrine | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 1883 | 30.6.1885 | 1887 | stricken 1911 | ||
| Dague | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 6/1884 | 6/1885 | 1888 | stricken 1905 | ||
| Dragonne | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 10/1884 | 28.8.1885 | 1888 | stricken 1910 | ||
| Flèche | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 10/1884 | 8.11.1885 | 1888 | stricken 1912 | ||
| Lance | F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 12/1884 | 20.4.1886 | 1890 | stricken 1914 | ||
| Sainte-Barbe | Claparède, Quevilly | 1884 | 10.10.1885 | 1890 | stricken 1911 | ||
| Salve | Claparède, Quevilly | 1884 | 6.2.1886 | 1890 | stricken 1906 |
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Displacement normal, t |
369 - 430 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
59.2 pp |
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Breadth, m |
5.97 |
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Draught, m |
3.17 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VC, 4 locomotive boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
1800 |
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Max speed, kts |
18 - 19 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 108 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armour, mm |
steel; CT: 13 |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 5 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 2 x 1 - 350 TT |
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Complement |
70 |
Project history: These vessels had three light raking masts, originally with a fore and aft rig, and a single raking funnel abaft the foremast. The bow was slightly ram-shaped with an overhanging stern and the sides curved in to a narrow upper deck. The 3pdrs were mounted forward and aft and in sponsons on either beam, with the TT in sponsons further aft. Dragonne was fitted for experiments with howitzers in 1896. The boilers in this class gave great trouble and led to delay In completion.
Ship protection: CT had 13mm sides.
Modernizations: 1890s, Bombe, Dague, Lance, Saint-Barbe, Salve: were reboilered with 4 Guyot du Temple boilers
1890s, Flèche: was reboilered with 4 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers
Naval service: No significant events.
Sainte-Barbe
© Ivan Gogin, 2014