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Turenne

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bayard			Arsenal de Brest	10/1876	3/1880	1882	hulk 1899
Turenne			Arsenal de Lorient	1876	10/1879	1882	stricken 1901

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Bayard: 5915 Turenne: 6260
Displacement full, t
Length, m	81.0 wl
Breadth, m	17.5
Draught, m	7.62 - 7.67 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 8 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	4400
Max speed, kts	14 - 14.5
Fuel, t	coal 450
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	wrought iron; belt: 250 - 150, barbettes: 200, deck: 50
Armament	4 x 1 - 240/18 M1870, 2 x 1 - 194/20 M1870, 6 x 1 - 139/21 M1870, 12 x 5 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	451

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Project history

Wooden-hulled ships with steel upperworks and ram bows. The barbettes had unarmoured ammunition tubes and were sponsoned on either beam forward of the funnel and on the centreline amidships and aft, the arrangement being similar to that in the Amiral Duperré. The 194mm were forward and aft under the forecastle and poop and the 139mm in an unarmoured main deck battery. Both vessels were ship rigged.

Ship protection

The belt was complete and extended from 1.3m above water to 1.6m below. It was 250mm amidships reducing to 150mm at the lower edge and ends. There was a 50mm armour deck at the belt upper edge.

Modernizations

1880s, Bayard: + 4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885

1880s, Turenne: + 4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 350 TT (beam, aw)

Naval service

No significant events.