Villars-class cruiser
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The Villars class of unprotected cruisers was a group of four ships built for the French Navy in the mid-1870s and early 1880s. The class comprised Villars, Forfait, Magon, and Roland. They were designed as part of a naval construction program aimed at modernizing the French fleet in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, and were intended to serve overseas in the French colonial empire. As such, they were fitted with a full-ship rig to allow them to cruise for extended periods of time without burning coal for their steam engine, and they carried a relatively heavy armament of fifteen 138.6 mm (5.46 in) guns.
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4 produced,
French Navy, France, 
Erika, Faroleiro Mário Seixas, HMS Bathurst, La Galissonnière-class ironclad, Laine,
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