French cruiser Bugeaud

Bugeaud
History
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)
Installed power	20 × water-tube boilers 9,000 indicated horsepower (6,700 kW)
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 × screw propellers
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
Armament	6 × 164 mm (6.5 in) guns 4 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 4 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 11 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 2 × 350 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 30 to 80 mm (1.2 to 3.1 in) Conning tower: 75 mm (3 in)

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.