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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Duquesne			Arsenal de Rochefort	1873	1876	6/1878	stricken 1901

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5905
Displacement full, t
Length, m	100.4 wl
Breadth, m	15.2
Draught, m	7.98 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 12 oval boilers
Power, h. p.	8000
Max speed, kts	16.8
Fuel, t	coal 900
Endurance, nm(kts)	4400(10)
Armament	7 x 1 - 194/20 M1870, 14 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 1 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, 8 x 5 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	551

Project history

An iron-hulled cruiser, wood-sheathed and coppered, with a ram bow, overhanging stern and short forecastle. She was ship-rigged with two funnels between the fore- and mainmasts. There was a double bottom with eight watertight transverse bulkheads carried up to the main deck and a collision bulkhead in addition. The 194mm were on the upper deck with one under the forecastle and the rest in sponsons, while the 139mm were on the maindeck amidships. There were two boiler rooms and the engines appear to have given a good deal of trouble.

Modernizations

1894: machinery was replaced by new HC and 12 cylindrical boilers

1895: + 11 x 1 - 47/40 M1885

Naval service

No significant events.