NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bisson			Normand, Le Havre	1873	1874	1875	stricken 1892
Chasseur			Arsenal de Brest	1876	1878	1879	stricken 1894
Dumont d'Urville			Normand, Le Havre	1876	1878	1879	stricken 1897
Hussard			Normand, Le Havre	1875	1877	1878	school ship 1897
Labourdonnais			Normand, Le Havre	1873	1875	1876	wrecked 21.2.1893
Voltigeur			Arsenal de Brest	1876	1878	1879	stricken 1899

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	846 - 935
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.3 - 61.5 wl
Breadth, m	8.69
Draught, m	3.86 - 4.29 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 1 VC, 2 cylindrical boilers Chasseur, Voltigeur: sails + 1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	800
Max speed, kts	11.5 - 12
Fuel, t	coal 110 - 200
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Bisson, Dumont d'Urville: 3 x 1 - 139/21 M1870/M, 1 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, (4 - 6) x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss others: 4 x 1 - 139/21 M1870/M, (4 - 6) x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss
Complement	116

Standard scale images

BISSON screw sloops (1875-1879)

Project history

Generally resembled the Parseval, but the masts and funnel were not raked. The 139mm guns were mounted fore and aft with two amidships on the centreline, the 90mm replacing the forward 139mm in the two ships with it.

Modernizations

1880s, Voltigeur: reboilered with Beleville boilers

Naval service

Labourdonnais was wrecked 21.2.1893 off Madagascar on Sainte-Marie.