French cruiser Jean Bart

Jean Bart
Jean Bart off Toulon
History
France
Name: Jean Bart
Namesake: Jean Bart
Ordered: 18 September 1886
Builder: Rochefort shipyard
Laid down: December 1886
Launched: 24 October 1889
Commissioned: 1892
Decommissioned: 1897
In service: 1893
Fate: Wrecked 11 February 1907
General characteristics
Class and type: Alger-class protected cruiser
Displacement: 4100 tonnes
Length: 105.5 m (346 ft)
Beam: 13.2 m (43 ft)
Draught: 6.5 m (21 ft)
Propulsion: 8 Scotch marine boilers,[1] 8000 HP
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Armament:
  • 4 × 164 mm gun (6.5 inch)
  • 6 × 140 mm guns (5.5 inch)
  • 4 torpedo tubes

Jean Bart was a 4,800-ton first-class iron-hulled protected cruiser of the French Navy.

Jean Bart was built in Rochefort, France, in 1886 and commissioned in 1892. In 1893 she took part in the naval review during the World's Columbian Exhibition. She was re-rated as a second-class cruiser in 1897 and was sent to East Asia. In 1902, she returned to Lorient, France, to be decommissioned.

Jean Bart was recommissioned in 1906 and sent to the Caribbean. She ran aground in 1907 at Ras Nouadhibou on the Atlantic coast of Africa and became a total loss.

References

  1. ↑ 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. page 30


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