French cruiser Amiral Cécille
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| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Amiral Cécille |
| Namesake: | Jean-Baptiste Cécille |
| Laid down: | 1 September 1886 |
| Launched: | 3 May 1888 |
| In service: | 9 October 1890 |
| Out of service: | 27 August 1907 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,900 tonnes (5,807 long tons) |
| Installed power: | 10,200 shp (7,606 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 8 boilers |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Complement: | 490 |
| Armament: | 8 × 164 mm (6.5 in) guns 10 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns 4 × 100 mm (4 in) guns 2 × torpedo tubes |
The Amiral Cécille was a protected cruiser of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean-Baptiste Cécille.
She replaced the Dubourdieu in the station of the Caribbean. In late January 1900 she left Fort-de-France, Martinique, for the West Coast of Africa.[1]
From 1907, she was used as a school ship for mechanics in Toulon.
Sources and references
- Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870–2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 23 January 1900. (36046), p. 12.
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