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Turenne

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bayard     Arsenal de Brest 10/1876 3/1880 1882 hulk 1899
Turenne     Arsenal de Lorient 1876 10/1879 1882 stricken 1901


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Bayard: 5915

Turenne: 6260

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

81.0 wl

Breadth, m

17.5

Draught, m

7.62 - 7.67 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VC, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

4400

Max speed, kts

14 - 14.5

Fuel, t

coal 450

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armour, mm

wrought iron; belt: 250 - 150, barbettes: 200, deck: 50

Armament

4 x 1 - 240/18 M1870, 2 x 1 - 194/20 M1870, 6 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 12 x 5 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

451



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<i>Turenne</i>
Turenne


Project history

Wooden-hulled ships with steel upperworks and ram bows. The barbettes had unarmoured ammunition tubes and were sponsoned on either beam forward of the funnel and on the centreline amidships and aft, the arrangement being similar to that in the Amiral Duperré. The 194mm were forward and aft under the forecastle and poop and the 139mm in an unarmoured main deck battery. Both vessels were ship rigged.

Ship protection

The belt was complete and extended from 1.3m above water to 1.6m below. It was 250mm amidships reducing to 150mm at the lower edge and ends. There was a 50mm armour deck at the belt upper edge.

Modernizations

1880s, Bayard: + 4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885

1880s, Turenne: + 4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (beam, aw)

Naval service

No significant events.