French cruiser Naïade

	Naïade in harbor, date unknown
Class overview
Preceded by	Iphigénie
Succeeded by	Aréthuse
History
France
Name	Naïade
Builder	Arsenal de Brest
Laid down	25 February 1878
Launched	6 January 1881
Completed	June 1883
Commissioned	June 1882
Stricken	1 December 1899
Fate	Broken up, 1900
General characteristics
Type	Unprotected cruiser
Displacement	3,527 t (3,471 long tons)
Length	74.86 m (246 ft) lpp
Beam	14.15 m (46 ft 5 in)
Draft	6.69 m (22 ft)
Installed power	8 × fire-tube boilers; 2,800 indicated horsepower (2,100 kW);
Propulsion	1 × compound steam engine; 1 × screw propeller;
Sail plan	Full ship rig
Speed	14.7 knots (27.2 km/h; 16.9 mph)
Complement	439
Armament	4 × 165 mm (6.5 in) guns; 22 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns; 2 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns; 8 × 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon; 1 × 350 mm (13.8 in) torpedo tube;

Naïade was an unprotected cruiser of the French Navy that was built in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

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