NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Beautemps-Beaupré			Arsenal de Brest	1867	1872	1874	stricken 1896
Bourayne			Arsenal de Nantes	1867	1869	1870	hulk 1890
Dayot			Arsenal de Nantes	1867	1869	1870	foundered 28.2.1888
Duchaffault			Arsenal de Cherbourg	1867	1872	1874	stricken 1896
Ducouëdic			Arsenal de Brest	1867	1869	1872	stricken 1889
Hugon			Arsenal de Brest	1867	1872	1874	stricken 1896
Kerguelen			Arsenal de Cherbourg	1867	1872	1874	stricken 1894
Kersaint			Arsenal de Lorient	1868	1869	1872	stricken 1886
Segond			Arsenal de Nantes	1867	1869	1872	stricken 1896
Vaudreuil			Arsenal de Nantes	1867	1870	1873	stricken 1889

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1330
Displacement full, t
Length, m	63.2 wl
Breadth, m	10.4
Draught, m	4.98 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	sails + 1 HC, 2 oval boilers
Power, h. p.	900 - 1200
Max speed, kts	11.3 - 12.8
Fuel, t	coal 175 - 295
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Bourayne, Dayot: 1 x 1 - 194/19 M1864/66 MLR, 6 x 1 - 139/19 M1864/66 MLR (1 x 1 - 165/21 M1870, 5 x 1 - 139/21 M1870) or 6 x 1 - 139/21 M1870
Complement	154

Project history

A group of wooden-hulled ships, mostly barque-rigged without royals and differing in detail. The 165mm gun or one of the 139mm guns was mounted on the forecastle with a 139mm on a raised platform aft and the others on the broadside. Beautemps-Beaupré and Bourayne had tripod foremasts.

Modernizations

1870s, Bourayne, Dayot: were armed as later ships

1870s, all: + (2 - 8) x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service

Dayot was lost in a cyclone at Tamatave 28.2.1888.