NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bouvet			Arsenal de Rochefort	1872	5/1876	1877	wrecked 12.1889
Parseval, 1895- Amiral Parseval			Arsenal de Rochefort	1872	1879	1880	stricken 1900

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	856
Displacement full, t
Length, m	60.8 wl
Breadth, m	8.56
Draught, m	3.96 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	800
Max speed, kts	11.4
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Parseval: 4 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 5 x 5 - 37/20 M1885 Bouvet: 3 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 1 x 1 - 100/27 M1875, 6 x 5 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	119

Project history

Wooden-hulled ships wilth iron beams and braces and rigged as barques without royals. There was a short forecastle with ram bow and overhanging stern and one funnel which was raked; as were the masts. In Parseval, completed in 1880, the 139mm were on the centreline, forward and aft with two amidships, while Bouvet, completed three years earlier, had one on the centreline between main and mizzenmasts with two on the broadside before the funnel and the 100mm on the forecastle.

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

Bouvet went ashore on Zanzibar in December 1889 and, though refloated, was never fully repaired and finally stricken in 1891.