Opening Kiel Canal, Kiel, Germany, June 1895
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 in 1920, now to Belgium where she was rebuilt as a cargo ship and renamed Péruvier and broken up in 1923.
