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RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY wooden cruisers (1878 - 1879)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rigault de Genouilly     Arsenal de Brest 1873 1876 1878 hulk 1899
Éclaireur     Arsenal de Toulon 1874 1877 1879 stricken 1902


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Rigault de Genouilly: 1722

Éclaireur: 1800

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

73.9 wl

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

5.36 - 5.49 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 205

Endurance, nm(kts)3100(10)
Armament

Rigault de Genouilly: 8 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 6 x 5 - 37/20 M1885

Éclaireur: 8 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 8 x 5 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

194



Project history

Wooden-hulled ships but with iron beams and longitudinals. There was a very pronounced curved ram bow and a short forecastle and overhanging stern. Rigault de Genouilly was rigged as a barque without royals and Éclaireur as a ship. In both the 139mm were on the upper deck broadside with a bow and a stern chaser.

Modernizations

1890, Rigault de Genouilly: was reboilered with Belleville boilers.

Naval service

No significant events.