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ARÉTHUSE wooden cruiser (1885)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aréthuse     Arsenal de Toulon 2/1879 1882 7/1885 hulk 1899


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3487

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

74.4 wl

Breadth, m

14.3

Draught, m

6.91 max

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 HC, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

3200

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 165/28 M1881, 22 x 1 - 139/28 M1881, 8 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Complement

467



Standard scale images


<i>Aréthuse </i>late 1880s
Aréthuse late 1880s


Project history

A ship-rigged, wooden-hulled cruiser with a ram bow and overhanging stern. There was a forecastle and poop with the funnel abaft the foremast. The 165mm guns were in upper deck sponsons with 20 139mm on the main deck broadside and the other 2 on forecastle and poop.

Modernizations

1891: re-boilered (4000hp, 17kts); - 6 x 1 - 139/28; + 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss.

Naval service

No significant events.