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Lapérouse 1898

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
D'Estaing			Arsenal de Brest	1877	1879	1881	stricken 1901
Lapérouse			Arsenal de Brest	6/1875	5.11.1877	2/1880	wrecked 31.7.1898
Nielly			Arsenal de Brest	1876	1880	1882	stricken 1902
Primauguet (ex-Monge)			Arsenal de Rochefort	1876	1882	3/1884	stricken 1901

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2363
Displacement full, t
Length, m	81.9 wl
Breadth, m	11.4
Draught, m	5.66 - 5.87 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2750
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(10)
Armament	15 x 1 - 139/21 M1870M, 1 x 1 - 90/36 M1870, (8 - 10) x 5 - 37/20 M1885
Complement	264

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Project history

Primauguet was laid down as the Monge and renamed in 1882. Wooden-hulled ships with iron beams and longitudinals and two strakes of iron and angle iron in the bottom. There was a plough bow with a forecastle, and they had a light barque or ship rig without royals. Primauguet differed in having two funnels close together on the centreline instead of one. Two of the 139mm were on the forecastle with one on a raised platform aft and the rest on the upper deck broadside in slightly sponsoned ports with thin iron shields.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Lapérouse was wrecked 31.7.1898 in Fort-Dauphin's Bay, Madagascar.