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D'Estrées-class cruiser

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Class overview
NameDestrées
Operators French Navy
Preceded byChâteaurenault (1898)
Succeeded byJurien de la Gravière
In commission1899–1922
Completed2
Retired2
General characteristics
TypeProtected cruiser
Displacement2,428 tonnes (2,390 long tons)
Length95 m (311 ft 8 in)
Beam12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Installed power8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion8 boilers
Speed20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Complement250
Armament

The Destrées class was a type of protected cruiser of the French Navy, built in the late 1890s and which operated during the First World War.

Ships

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