Lapérouse-class cruiser

Class overview
Name: Lapérouse class
Operators:  Marine Nationale
Completed: 4
General characteristics
Type: Barbette cruiser
Tonnage: 2240 tonnes
Length: 80 m (262 ft 6 in)
Beam: 11.40 m (37 ft 5 in)
Draught: 5.50 m (18 ft 1 in)
Installed power: 1,700 kW (2,300 shp)
Propulsion:
  • steam engine
  • Sail
Sail plan: full-rigged
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 264
Armament:
  • 15 × 140 mm (5.5 in) M1870M guns
  • 2 × Hotchkiss quick-firing guns
  • 8 × 1-pounder revolvers
Notes: beached on the coast of Madagascar

The Lapérouse class was a type of barbette cruisers of the French Navy, with wooden hull and iron beams. These ships had plough bows with a forecastle, a displacement of 2,363 tons, a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) and had a complement of 264 sailors. Armament was fifteen 140 mm (5.5 in) M1870M guns later replaced in Primauget with quick-firing conversions. Each ship also had eight 1-pounder revolvers.[1][2]

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