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Armoured Cruiser FS Pothuau pictured at Toulon in 1912.
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Hardly what you might call pretty is she , but then she may have been thought so then eh .
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IIRC, a sister ended up in Polish Navy post WW1 as the BALTYK. Not exactly pretty...EEK! DFO
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Armoured Cruiser FS Jeanne d'Arc pictured fitting out Arsenal de Toulon in 1900.
She was the sole ship of her Class. Completed in 1903, she was initially assigned to the Northern Squadron (French: Escadre du Nord), although she was transferred to the reserve fleet before the end of the year. She was recommissioned for a few months in mid-1905 and was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet (Escadre de Méditerranée) in mid-1906 and served as a Flagship for the next several years. Jeanne d'Arc was assigned to the reserve in mid-1908 and modified to serve as a Training Ship for naval cadets of the Naval Academy (École Navale). In 1912, she made the first of two lengthy training cruises.
A few days after she returned from her cruise, she was mobilised for service with the Northern Squadron as tensions rose before World War I began in August 1914. Jeanne d'Arc was tasked to patrol the English Channel in search of contraband and German blockade runners and continued to perform that mission until March 1915 when she was transferred to the Mediterranean. She was initially assigned to support French troops in the Dardanelles Campaign and then became Flagship of the French ships patrolling the Levantine coast. In early 1916, Jeanne d'Arc began a lengthy refit that lasted until 1917 when she was assigned to the French West Indies. She was placed in reserve in 1918 and resumed her previous role as a Training Ship the next year. Jeanne d'Arc returned to reserve in 1928 and was struck from the Navy List in 1933 before being sold for scrap the following year.
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A thing of the past,when seaman actually painted the side..Lead Ship,Armoured Cruiser FS Linois,1894.
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Armoured Cruiser FS Pothuau pictured on the ways,under construction at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Shipyard,Granville near Normandy in 1895.
Commissioned in 1897,she spent most of her active career in the Mediterranean before becoming a Gunnery Training Ship in 1906. She participated in the Kamerun Campaign early in World War I before she was transferred to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in 1916 where she patrolled and escorted convoys. Pothuau fruitlessly searched the Indian Ocean for the German commerce raider Wolf in mid-1917. She resumed her previous role after the war until she was decommissioned in 1926 and sold for scrap three years later.
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Launch day at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Shipyard,Granville near Normandy for Armoured Cruiser FS Pothuau on September 19th 1895.
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Dupleix Class Armoured Cruiser FS Kléber pictured at New York in 1907.
Kléber was built by Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde Shipyards,Lormont near Bordeaux and launched on September 20th 1902.
During World War I, while serving in the Gallipoli Campaign, Kléber collided with the Royal Australian Navy Troopship HMT Boorara in the Aegean Sea in July 1915, forcing Boorara to beach herself on Mudros. After service off Gallipoli and in the Aegean, Kléber was refitted at Bordeaux in 1916 before sailing to Dakar, French West Africa as flagship of the 6th Squadron.
Returning to France, on June 27th 1917 off Pointe de St-Matthieu, Kléber struck a mine laid by German U-boat UC-61 and sank in Bay of Biscay off the Iroise entrance to Brest, with the loss of 42 of her crew,the rest being saved by escorting Destroyers.
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This armored cruiser had to IMPRESS the locals: six, count them...SIX FUNNELS!! WOW!! ;)
A large one for her day! ERNEST RENAN. Imagine how many stokers were needed to "feed" those 42 boilers...whew! DFO
Armored cruiser
Displacement: 13,644 tonnes (13,429 long tons)
Length: 159 m (521 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam: 21.5 m (70 ft 6 in)
Draft: 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Installed power: 37,000 ihp (28,000 kW)
42 Niclausse boilers

Propulsion: 3 shafts, 3 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range: 5,100 nmi (9,400 km; 5,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 750 or 824
Armament: 2 twin 194 mm (7.6 in) guns
12 single 164 mm (6.5 in) guns
16 single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
8 single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns
2 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

Armor: Belt: 58–152 mm (2.3–6 in)
Primary gun turrets: 203 mm (8 in)
Intermediate gun turrets: 170 mm (6.5 in)
Bulkhead: 89 mm (3.5 in)
Deck: 46–66 mm (1.8–2.6 in)
Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm
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Armoured Cruiser FS Jules Michelet pictured in the Panama Canal in 1921.She was laid down in 1904 and completed in 1908. She was a development of the Léon Gambetta Class of Armoured Cruisers, and was the sole representative of its type. It served during the First World War being eventually sunk as a target in 1937.
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