 Duguesclin in port, date unknown
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| History | |
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| Name | Duguesclin |
| Builder | Rochefort |
| Laid down | March 1877 |
| Launched | 7 April 1883 |
| Commissioned | 1 January 1886 |
| Stricken | 19 October 1904 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Vauban-class ironclad |
| Displacement | 6,207.6 t (6,109.6 long tons; 6,842.7 short tons) |
| Length | 84.7 m (277 ft 11 in) loa |
| Beam | 17.45 m (57 ft) |
| Draft | 7.39 m (24 ft 3 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range | 2,380.5 nmi (4,408.7 km; 2,739.4 mi) at 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
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Duguesclin was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and 1880s; she was the second and final member of the Vauban class. Intended for service in the French colonial empire, she was designed as a "station ironclad", which were smaller versions of the first-rate vessels built for the main fleet. The Vauban class was a scaled down variant of Amiral Duperré. They carried their main battery of four 240 mm (9.4 in) guns in open barbettes, two forward side-by-side and the other two aft on the centerline. Duguesclin was laid down in 1879 and was completed in 1885. Despite the intention to use her overseas, the ship remained in home waters for the duration of her career, serving with the Mediterranean Squadron from 1888 to 1895, though the last two years were as part of the Reserve Division. She spent the next several years in the 2nd category of reserve, ultimately being struck from the naval register in 1904. She was sold for scrap the following year and broken up in Italy.