 Bugeaud
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Bugeaud |
| Namesake | Thomas Robert Bugeaud |
| Ordered | 29 January 1891 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
| Laid down | 5 April 1892 |
| Launched | 29 August 1893 |
| Commissioned | 25 March 1895 |
| In service | 24 June 1896 |
| Decommissioned | 26 October 1905 |
| Stricken | 9 April 1906 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Friant-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,771 t (3,711 long tons; 4,157 short tons) |
| Length | 97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) loa |
| Beam | 13.24 m (43 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 331 |
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Bugeaud [by.ɡo] was a Friant-class protected cruiser of the French Navy built in the 1890s, the second of three ships of the class. The Friant-class cruisers were ordered as part of a construction program directed at strengthening the fleet's cruiser force. At the time, France was concerned with the growing naval threat of the Italian and German fleets, and the new cruisers were intended to serve with the main fleet, and overseas in the French colonial empire. Bugeaud and her two sister ships were armed with a main battery of six 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, were protected by an armor deck that was 30 to 80 mm (1.2 to 3.1 in) thick, and were capable of steaming at a top speed of 18.7 knots (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph).
Bugeaud was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron after her completion in 1896 before being transferred to serve as the flagship of the Levant Division in the eastern Mediterranean. During that time, she participated in the International Squadron that intervened in the Cretan Revolt of 1897–1898. Bugead was sent to East Asia in 1900 in response to the Boxer Uprising in Qing China, where she remained for the next several years. Shipyard facilities were poor, and an overhaul conducted in 1903 took more than six months to complete; even afterward, Bugeaud was in poor condition, and she was struck from the naval register in 1907 and then broken up.