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Cassini 1906

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Casabianca			A C de la Gironde, Bordeaux	1/1894	21.9.1895	1896	minelayer 1913, sunk 3.6.1915
Cassini			F C de la Méditerranée Graville, Le Havre	11/1892	5.6.1894	1895	minelayer 1913, sunk 20.2.1917
D'Iberville			A C de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire	8/1891	11.9.1892	1894	stricken 7.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	D'Iberville: 952 Casabianca, Cassini: 970
Displacement full, t
Length, m	80.0 pp 81.9 oa
Breadth, m	D'Iberville: 8.08 Casabianca, Cassini: 8.20
Draught, m	3.45 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	D'Iberville, Cassini: 2 VQE, 8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers Casabianca: 2 VTE, 8 Lagrafel d'Allest boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	21.5 - 22
Fuel, t	coal 115
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	D'Iberville: steel; deck: 20 with 40mm slopes, CT: 40 Casabianca, Cassini: steel; belt: 20, deck: 20
Armament	D'Iberville: 1 x 1 - 100/45 M1891, 3 x 1 - 65/50 M1891, 6 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 450 TT (bow), 4 x 1 - 450 TT Casabianca, Cassini: 1 x 1 - 100/45 M1891, 3 x 1 - 65/50 M1891, 7 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	D'Iberville: 143 Casabianca, Cassini: 140

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Project history

Two-funnelled ships with a forecastle and poop, a ram bow and two masts. The 100mm was forward and the 65mm aft and on either beam.  They were reported to roll very heavily in a seaway. The TT were removed from D'Iberville by 1899 and reduced to 2 in Casabianca and Cassini. The two latter were converted to minelayers in 1913;

Ship protection

D'Iberville had a 20mm deck thickened to 40mm on the slopes in wake or the machinery spaces, and 40mm on the CT, while the other two had 20mm on the deck over the machinery spaces and 20mm on the side in wake.

Modernizations

1899, D'Iberville: - 2 - 450 TT, 4 x 1 - 450 TT

1899, Casabianca, Cassini: - 1 - 450 TT

1913, Casabianca, Cassini: - 7 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 97 mines

Naval service

Casabianca blew up on own mine off Smyrna 3.6.1915. Cassini was sunk by a mine laid by German submarine UC35 in the Strait of Bonifacio 20.2.1917.