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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Boursaint			Arsenal de Rochefort	1868	1872	1873	stricken 1892
Bruix			Bordeaux	1865	1867	1868	stricken 1882

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	767
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.2 wl
Breadth, m	8.53
Draught, m	3.89 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	680
Max speed, kts	11.5
Fuel, t	coal 100
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 165/18 M1858-60 MLR, 4 x 1 - 120/16 M1858-60 MLR
Complement	94

BRUIX screw sloops (1868-1873)

 

Project history

Ram-bowed, wooden-hulled sloops with iron beams and braces and rigged as barques without royals. Boursaint later mounted 1-5.5in M1870, 2-3.9in and 4-lpdr revolvers.

Modernizations

1870s, Boursaint: - 1 x 1 - 165/18, 4 x 1 - 120/16; + 1 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 2 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service

No significant events.