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Lavoisier 1890s

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Galilée     Arsenal de Rochefort 1893 28.4.1896 1897 stricken 1911
Lavoisier     Arsenal de Rochefort 1/1895 17.4.1897 4/1898 disarmed 8.1919, condemned 1920
Linois     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 8/1892 30.1.1894 1895 stricken 1910


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Linois: 2285

Galilée, Lavoisier: 2318

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

Linois: 98.0

Galilée, Lavoisier: 100.6

Breadth, m

Linois, Lavoisier: 10.6

Galilée: 11.0

Draught, m

5.44 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Linois: 2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers

Galilée, Lavoisier: 2 VTE, 16 Belleville boilers

Power, h. p.

6800

Max speed, kts

20.5

Fuel, t

Linois: coal 400

Galilée: coal 339

Lavoisier: coal 339 + oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

Linois: 4000(10)

Galilée, Lavoisier: 3000(10)

Armour, mm

steel; deck: 40, shields: 75 - 50, CT: 125

Armament

Linois: 4 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 2 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 8 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 4 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 4 - 450 TT (beam, aw), 120 mines

Galilée: 4 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 2 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 8 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 4 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 2 - 450 TT (beam, aw), 120 mines

Lavoisier: 4 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 2 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 8 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 4 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 2 - 450 TT (beam, aw)

Complement

201



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<i>Lavoisier </i>1890s
Lavoisier 1890s


Project history

Of higher freeboard than the Forbin and Troude classes with a forecastle deck nearly to the stern, two funnels and two widely spaced masts.  Lavoisier was fitted to burn oil fuel with coal.

Ship protection

The 139mm guns were in upper deck sponsons with 75mm shields, and the 100mm were at bow and stern with 50mm shields. There was a small CT with 125mm armour and the curved armour deck was 40mm with a cofferdam above and a light debris deck over the engines.

Modernizations

1900s, all: - 2 x 1 - 37/20, 4 x 5 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 M1885

Naval service

No significant events.