LAPEROUSE barbette cruiser 1882

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Built as a barbette cruiser by Chantiers Brest in Brest for the French Navy.
23 June 1875 laid down.
05 November 1877 launched as the LAPÉROUSE one of the Lapérouse class of four ships, she was named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.
Displacement 2,363 ton, dim. 81.92 x 11.38 x 5.66m.
Powered by 6-cyl steam engines, 2,750 ihp, twin shafts, speed 15 knots.
Bunker capacity 300 ton coal.
Fitted out with a plough bow with a forecastle.
Ship rigged.
Armament 15 – 140mm M1870M guns, 2 Hotchkiss quick-firing guns and eight 1 pdrs. revolvers.
Crew 264.
1882 Completed, homeport Brest.

The class was wooden hulled with iron beams and longitudinals and two strakes of iron and angle iron in the bottom.
Used as a defence cruiser in the French Navy.
January 1885 arrived from Franc in the Far East, where she joined the French Far East Squadron which was under command of Admiral Améedée Courbet.

31 July1898 during a storm she was beached and wrecked on the coast of Madagascar, the crew was rescued.

Taaf 2011 4.30 Euro sg?, scott?

Source: Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Wikipedia.