French cruiser Marseillaise (1900)
For other ships of the same name, see French cruiser Marseillaise.
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Name: | Marseillaise |
Builder: | Brest shipyard |
Laid down: | December 1899 |
Launched: | 14 July 1900 |
Commissioned: | 1903 |
Struck: | 1929 |
Fate: | Broken up, 1933 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Gloire-class cruiser |
Displacement: | 9,856 tonnes (9,700 long tons) |
Length: | 140 m (459 ft 4 in) |
Beam: | 20 m (65 ft 7 in) |
Draught: | 7.7 m (25 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion: | 8 Belleville large tube boilers with economisers (1896 type),[1] steam engine, 21,800 hp (16,256 kW) |
Speed: | 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph) |
Complement: | 615 men |
Armament: | 2 × 194 mm (7.6 in) 40-calibre 1893 Model guns in single mounts 8 × 164 mm (6.5 in) 45-calibre 1893 Model guns in single mounts 6 × 100 mm (4 in) guns 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
Armour: | Belt : 150 mm (6 in) Deck : 40 mm (2 in) Turrets : 170 mm (7 in) |
The Marseillaise was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.
In 1920, she escorted SS George Washington as she ferried US President Woodrow Wilson to the USA.[2]
In 1922, she was put in the reserve, and used as gunnery school from 1925. She was condemned on 13 February 1932 and broken up the next year.
References
- ↑ Louis-Émile Bertin: Marine boilers—their construction and working, dealing more especially with tubulous boilers - Ed. 2 (1906), tr. and ed. by Leslie S. Robertson. Freely available on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/marineboilersthe00bertuoft. pages 329, 322.
- ↑ "Gloire Class". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
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