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NAÏADE wooden cruiser (1882)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Naïade     Arsenal de Brest 1878 1881 2/1882 stricken 1900


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3637

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

74.4 wl

Breadth, m

14.3

Draught, m

7.16 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2800

Max speed, kts

14.7

Fuel, t

coal 450

Endurance, nm(kts)4600(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 165/21 M1870, 18 x 1 - 139/21 M1870M, 2 x 1 - 100/27 M1875, 8 x 5 - 37/20 M1885, 1 - 350 TT (aw, beam)

Complement

439



Project history

A wooden-hulled cruiser with clipper bows, forecastle and poop. She was ship-rigged and the funnel was abaft the foremast. The guns were arranged as in the Iphigénie. Her engines gave considerable trouble on trials.

Modernizations

1880s: - 2 x 1 - 165/21, 1 - 350 TT; + 2 x 1 - 165/28 M1881

Naval service

No significant events.