Please answer the following question: Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Laperouse-class cruiser - The Laperouse-class was a type of barbette cruisers of the French Navy with wooden hull and iron beams. These ships had plough bows with a forecastle a displacement of 2363 tons a speed of 15 Knots and had a complement of 264 sailors. Armament was fifteen 5.5-inch M1870M guns later replaced in Primauget with quick-firing conversions. Each ship also had eight 1-pounder revolvers.
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