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VILLARS composite cruisers (1880-1885)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Forfait     Arsenal de Toulon 1876 1879 1880 stricken 1897
Magon     Arsenal de Cherbourg 1877 1880 1882 stricken 1896
Roland     Arsenal de Cherbourg 1877 1882 1885 stricken 1898
Villars     Arsenal de Cherbourg 1875 1879 1881 stricken 1896


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2382 average

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

76.0 wl

Breadth, m

11.6

Draught, m

5.23 - 5.49 max

No of shafts1
Machinery

sails + 1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2750

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

coal 400

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

15 x 1 - 139/21 M1870/M, (6 - 8) x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Complement

264



Standard scale images


<i>Villars </i>1881
Villars 1881


Project history

Wooden-hulled ships with iron beams and longitudinals and a partial double bottom. There was a ram bow and forecastle and they were lightly rigged as barques or ships without royals.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.