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Sunday, 17 April 2016
French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme fitted out with water tube boilers according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1896-1897 no. 8
An item referred to the Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens reporting that the French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme would be fitted out with water tube boilers. The present boilers were inside the ship be broken up and the parts via the mantel be removed.(1)
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1. She was the only ship of her class and laid down at Brest in July 1887 (1888?), launched 27 October 1890 and completed 1895, building costs 415.000 British pound. Although sold to Peru in 1912 and renamed Commandant Elias Aquirre she wasn't delivered to this country but stayed apparently in France. In 1914 she got her original name back, but due to her worse condition saw no active service in the First World War. Finally she was sold again, now to Belgium where she was rebuilt as a cargo ship and renamed Peruvier.