NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bugeaud			Arsenal de Cherbourg	6/1891	29.8.1893	5/1896	stricken 1.1911
Chasseloup-Laubat			Arsenal de Cherbourg	6/1891	17.4.1893	1895	accommodation ship 2.1911
Friant			Arsenal de Brest	1891	17.4.1893	4/1895	submarine depot ship 1918

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Friant: 3982 Chasseloup-Laubat: 3824 Bugeaud: 3809
Displacement full, t
Length, m	94.0 pp 97.0 oa
Breadth, m	13.0
Draught, m	6.30 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Friant: 2 VTE, 20 Niclausse boilers Chasseloup-Laubat: 2 VTE, 20 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers Bugeaud: 2 VTE, 24 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	9500
Max speed, kts	18.7
Fuel, t	coal 577
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 30 with 80mm slopes, shields: 50, CT: 75
Armament	6 x 1 - 165/45 M1891, 4 x 1 - 100/45 M1891, 4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 11 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (aw, beam)
Complement	339

Project history

A class of three-funnelled cruisers with tumblehome and a pronounced plough bow. The 165mm guns were forward and aft at forecastle deck level and in upper deck sponsons located abreast of the middle funnel and forward of the mainmast. The 100mm guns were just abaft the foremast and mainmast at forecastle deck level.

Ship protection

All guns had 50mm shields and there was 75mm on the CT. The curved armour deck was 30mm on the flat with 80mm slopes and there was the usual cofferdam and cellular layer above and also a debris deck below over the machinery spaces.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Friant was used as a depot ship for submarines since 1918, stricken in June 1920.