Sister ship Gloire in 1913 |
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Name: | Amiral Aube |
Namesake: | Théophile Aube |
Builder: | Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire |
Laid down: | 9 August 1899 |
Launched: | 9 May 1902 |
Completed: | 17 April 1904 |
Struck: | 4 April 1922 |
Fate: | Sold for scrap, 15 September 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Gloire-class cruiser |
Displacement: | 9,534 metric tons (9,383 long tons) |
Length: | 139.8 m (458 ft 8 in) |
Beam: | 20.2 m (66 ft 3 in) |
Draft: | 7.7 m (25 ft) |
Installed power: | 20,500 ihp (15,300 kW) |
Propulsion: | 3 shafts, 3 vertical triple-expansion steam engines 28 water-tube boilers |
Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range: | 12,000 nautical miles (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 612 |
Armament: |
2 × 1 - 194 mm (7.6 in)/45 guns |
Armor: | Harvey armor Belt: 106–170 mm (4.2–6.7 in) Gun turrets: 173 mm (6.8 in) Bulkheads: 102–127 mm (4.0–5.0 in) Deck: 45–63 mm (1.8–2.5 in) Conning tower: 6 in (152 mm) |
The French cruiser Amiral Aube was an armored cruiser of the Gloire class that was built for the French Navy in the early 1900s.
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The Gloire-class ships were designed as enlarged and improved versions of the Dupleix-class armored cruisers by Emile Bertin.[1]
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