NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Milan			A C de la Loire, St-Nazaire	1882	5/1884	1885	stricken 1908

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1705
Displacement full, t
Length, m	92.1
Breadth, m	10.0
Draught, m	4.75 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 12 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	18.4
Fuel, t	coal 330
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 100/26 M1881, 8 x 5 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	194

Project history

A complete break with previous cruisers in this size range and the forerunner of the protected cruisers of the Forbin and Troude classes. The Milan was steel-hulled with a pronounced plough bow, overhanging stern, forecastle and poop. There were three light raking masts with a fore and aft rig, and two raking funnels abaft the foremast. The ship was lightly gunned and it had at one time been proposed to build her as an unarmed scout. The 100mm guns were on the forecastle and poop with originally one on either beam in addition. Her engines were complicated and bulky but appear to have worked well after some alterations. Propeller vibration was excessive at high speed.

Modernizations

1890s: - 2 x 1 - 100/26, 8 x 5 - 37/20; + 12 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (aw, beam)

Naval service

No significant events.