French cruiser Lapérouse

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Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Namesake: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
Builder: Brest shipyard
Laid down: 23 June 1875
Launched: 5 November 1877
General characteristics
Class and type: Barbette cruiser
Tonnage: 2240 tonnes
Length: 80 metres
Beam: 11.40 metres
Draught: 5.50 metres
Installed power: 2300 shp
Propulsion:

steam engine

Sail
Sail plan: full-rigged
Speed: 15 knots
Armament:

15 140mm guns

2 Hotchkiss quick-firing guns

The Lapérouse was a barbette cruiser of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

She was part of the Far East Squadron under Admiral Amédée Courbet.

She later was part of the Indian Ocean squadron.

Lapérouse was by a storm on 31 September 1898. She was beached on the coast of Madagascar. All hands were saved.

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