French ironclad Turenne

	Turenne in Toulon in March 1890
History
France
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)
Installed power	8 × fire-tube boilers; 4,000 ihp (3,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 × compound steam engines; 2 × screw propellers;
Sail plan	Full-ship rig
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Crew	24 officers; 425 enlisted men;
Armament	4 × 240 mm (9.4 in) guns; 2 × 194 mm (7.6 in) guns; 6 × 138.6 mm (5.46 in) guns; 4 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss revolver cannon; 12 × 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolver cannon; 2 × 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes;
Armor	Belt: 150 to 250 mm (5.9 to 9.8 in); Barbettes: 200 mm (7.9 in); Deck: 50 mm (2 in);

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.

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