French cruiser Iphigénie

	Iphigénie in Algiers in 1886
Class overview
Preceded by	Villars class
Succeeded by	Naïade
History
France
Name	Iphigénie
Laid down	23 August 1877
Launched	8 September 1881
Commissioned	15 May 1883
Decommissioned	16 August 1900
Stricken	4 December 1901
Fate	Sold, 19 January 1905
General characteristics
Type	Unprotected cruiser
Displacement	3,399.9 t (3,346.2 long tons)
Length	74.53 m (244 ft 6 in) loa
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	6.44 m (21 ft 2 in)
Installed power	8 × fire-tube boilers; 2,240 ihp (1,670 kW);
Propulsion	1 × compound steam engine; 1 × screw propeller;
Sail plan	Full ship rig
Speed	13.35 knots (24.72 km/h; 15.36 mph)
Range	5,200 nmi (9,600 km; 6,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	500
Armament	2 × 164.7 mm (6.48 in) guns; 18 × 138.6 mm (5.46 in) guns; 10 × 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolver cannon;

Iphigénie was an unprotected cruiser of the French Navy built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The ship was originally intended to serve overseas in the French colonial empire, but shortly after she was completed, the navy decided to convert her into a dedicated training ship. Her original armament of twenty medium-caliber guns was reduced to eight guns to free up space for accommodations. She spent her entire career, from 1884 to 1900, as a training vessel and she embarked on a total of eighteen significant training cruises. Her career passed relatively uneventfully, apart from a couple of minor accidents in the late 1880s. Having been replaced by a newer vessel in 1900, Iphigénie was decommissioned in August that year and was struck from the naval register in December 1901. She was eventually sold for scrap in 1905.

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