French cruiser Amiral Cécille

*Amiral Cécille*
History

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

Amiral Cécille was a protected cruiser of the French Navy, named in honour of Jean-Baptiste Cécille.

She replaced 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.

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 Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

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

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