 Turenne in Toulon in March 1890
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| History | |
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| Name | Turenne |
| Laid down | 1 March 1877 |
| Launched | 16 October 1879 |
| Completed | 1882 |
| Commissioned | 4 February 1882 |
| Stricken | 4 September 1900 |
| Fate | Sold, 1901 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bayard-class ironclad |
| Displacement | 6,363 t (6,263 long tons; 7,014 short tons) |
| Length | 81.22 m (266 ft 6 in) lwl |
| Beam | 17.45 m (57 ft) |
| Draft | 7.49 m (24 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Sail plan | Full-ship rig |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
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Turenne was an ironclad barbette ship of the French Navy built in the 1870s and 1890s; she was the second and final member of the Bayard 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 Bayard 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. Turenne was laid down in 1877 and was commissioned in 1882. She was sent to East Asia in early 1885 during the Sino-French War, but the conflict had ended by the time she arrived in the area. Turenne served as the flagship of the French squadron in the region for the next five years before returning to France in early 1890. The ship saw little active service in home waters, and remained in the reserve fleet for about a decade before being sold for scrap in 1901.