French cruiser D'Entrecasteaux
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| Career (France) |
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| Name: |
D'Entrecasteaux |
| Namesake: |
Admiral Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux |
| Builder: |
La Seyne |
| Laid down: |
1894 |
| Launched: |
June 1896 |
| In service: |
1899 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 8,123 tonnes (7,995 long tons) |
| Length: | 393 1/2 feet |
| Beam: | 58 1/2 feet |
| Draught: | 26 feet |
| Installed power: | 14,500 H.P. |
| Propulsion: | 2 sets triple expansion steam boilers |
| Speed: | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 521 |
| Armament: | 12 x 1 5.5 inch 45 call, 12 3 pounder, 4 maxim MGs, 2 18 inch torpedo |
| Armour: | 3 1/4 " Armor deck, 9 " Turrets, 4" Turret bases, 2 2/3" Casemates, 10" Conning Tower |
D'Entrecasteaux was a French protected cruiser launched in June 1896, completed in 1899. It was constructed at La Seyne in 1894.
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- Preceded by: Catinat class
- Followed by: Guichen
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- List of cruisers of the French Navy
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- ↑ Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press.
- ↑ John Moore et al, Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I, Random House Group Ltd