Type and Name. Displacement. Date
of
Launch.
Battery.
Tons. Year.
1st Class Gun-boats.
Crocodile 452   I 7½-inch,
II 4-inch.
Lionne
Lutin
Lynx
Milan
Vautour
Diligente393 II 5½-inch.
2d Class Gun-boats.
Chacal295   II 5½-inch.
Etendard
Fanfare
Gladiateur
Hyene
Jaguar
Leopard
Oriflamme
Couleuvre295   II 5½-inch.
Décidée
Frelon
Pique
Surprise
Tactique
Epée177   I 9¼-inch,
28 Gun-boats177   I 4¾-inch.
Transports.
Bievre1,475   II 5½-inch.
Oise1,770
Caravans2,8681875
Ampère Building
Annamite5,8401876
Mytho5,840Building
Shamrock5,840
Tonquin5,840
Allier1,655  IV 5½-inch.
Nievre1,655
Drac1,655
Saone1,655

DUQUESNE. TOURVILLE.

Iron frigates, sheathed with wood and coppered. Strengthened bows for ramming, with heavy bronze rams. Three half-turrets or platforms on each side of the spar-deck, projecting clear of the side to give clear fore-and-aft fire. Bow-gun working in a single port under the forecastle. Pilot-house and chart-room on a bridge forward of the smoke-stacks. Boats carried on a gallows-frame between the smoke-stacks. Fine lines, heavy shoulder; the bow-frames are given a flare out from the main-deck up, to give a full forecastle for working the bow-gun. Single screw, full sail-power. Gun-deck, broadside battery, fourteen 5½-inch rifles. Spar-deck battery, seven 7½-inch rifles. Bow-fire, three 7½-inch; beam-fire, nine 5½-inch (two guns can be shifted on the gun-deck, so as to give nine for a broadside), three 7½-inch; stern-fire, two 7½-inch. Two sets of engines and boilers, placed one abaft the other for protection. Between the forward turrets on the spar-deck are the wash-rooms and water-closets, giving the appearance of a fourth half-turret. Maximum speed at sea for 24 hours, 16½ knots.

TOURVILLE.

DUGUAY TROUIN.

Iron corvette, sheathed with wood and coppered. Strengthened bow for ramming, with heavy bronze ram. Four half-turrets, similar to those of the Tourville. Bow-gun working under the forecastle in a single port. Single screw, full sail-power. All the battery carried on the spar-deck, leaving a clear, roomy main-deck. Stern-gun mounted in barbette on a centre-pivot carriage. Bow-fire, two 7¼-inch, one 5½-inch; beam-fire, two 7¼-inch, three 5½-inch; stern fire, two 7¼-inch, one 5½-inch.

DUGUAY TROUIN.