NAVYPEDIA

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.