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Lapérouse 1898

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
D'Estaing     Arsenal de Brest 1877 1879 1881 stricken 1901
Lapérouse     Arsenal de Brest 6/1875 5.11.1877 2/1880 wrecked 31.7.1898
Nielly     Arsenal de Brest 1876 1880 1882 stricken 1902
Primauguet (ex-Monge)     Arsenal de Rochefort 1876 1882 3/1884 stricken 1901


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2363

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

81.9 wl

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

5.66 - 5.87 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2750

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 300

Endurance, nm(kts)4800(10)
Armament

15 x 1 - 139/21 M1870M, 1 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, (8 - 10) x 5 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

264



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<i>Lapérouse </i>1898
Lapérouse 1898


Project history

Primauguet was laid down as the Monge and renamed in 1882. Wooden-hulled ships with iron beams and longitudinals and two strakes of iron and angle iron in the bottom. There was a plough bow with a forecastle, and they had a light barque or ship rig without royals. Primauguet differed in having two funnels close together on the centreline instead of one. Two of the 139mm were on the forecastle with one on a raised platform aft and the rest on the upper deck broadside in slightly sponsoned ports with thin iron shields.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Lapérouse was wrecked 31.7.1898 in Fort-Dauphin's Bay, Madagascar.