Gueydon-class cruiser

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Class overview
Gueydon
Name:	Gueydon
Operators:	French Navy
In commission:	1902 - 1935
Completed:	3
Lost:	1
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Armoured cruiser
Displacement:	9,516 tonnes
Length:	139.90 m
Propulsion:	3 engines and 3 propellers, 21 500 HP
Speed:	21.4 knots
Armament:	2 × 194mm/40 Modèle 1893 guns 8 × 163mm/45 Modèle 1893 guns 4 × 100 mm guns 16 × 47 mm guns 2 × torpedo launchers
Notes:	Ships in class include: Gueydon, Montcalm, Dupetit-Thouars

The Gueydon class was a class of armoured cruiser of the French Navy which were commissioned in 1902.

Description and History

Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1906

Dupetit-Thouars was torpedoed and sunk in 1918. Gueydon was decommissioned in 1935 and used as accommodation at Brest, and was finally scrapped in 1942. Montcalm was decommissioned in 1926 and used as accommodation, renamed Tremintin in 1934, and was finally scrapped in 1943.

v t e French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Rochefortais Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Enseigne Gabolde^S Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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Gueydon-class cruiser

Description and History

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