Laid down at Lorient on 20 December 1875, on 19 August 4 years later launched, not earlier completed as on 15 July 1882, stricken in 1922 and sold towards Germany. Underway however sunk op 5 May in Larmor-Plage where she is low tide still visible. finally broken up in 1923. The Dutch social democratic newspaper Voorwaarts dated Wednesday 19 April reported that she and the Tonnerre were sold by the French cabinet to French merchants who sold both ships to German firms. The intention was to tow these ships on next Saturday towards Hamburg, Germany. To be broken up With a displacement of 9.659-10.090 (full load) tonnes were her dimensions 95 (between perpendiculars)-98,70 (waterline)-10,25 (over all) x 21,25 x 7,57 (loaded fore)-7,70 (amidships loaded)-8,10 (aft loaded) x 7,34 (depth of hold) metres or 312’(between perpendiculars) x 69’7” x 24’6”x 24.1’. The two triple expansion of Woolf and 12 boilers supplied totally 8.000 ihp allowing a maximum speed under steam of 15 knots and with a speed of 10 knots under steam she had a range of 3.100 nautical miles. She was still bark rigged with a total sail area of 1.9933 square metres. Her crew numbered 689 men. The original armament consisted of 4043cm guns, 4-27cm guns, 6-14cm guns, 18-3,7cm revolving guns and 4-14” torpedo tubes which was by May 1896 altered and again march 1902. Her last armament consisted of 4-27,4cm guns, 2-24cm guns, 10-10cm guns, 14-4,7cm quick firing guns and 2-3,7cm quick firing guns. The torpedo tubes were then removed. She was armoured using wrought iron consisting of a 6cm thick main deck, a belt amidships thick 38cm and a redoubt by 24cm thick armour.
