French cruiser Desaix

History
France
Name	Desaix
Namesake	Louis Desaix
Laid down	November 1897
Launched	March 1901
Commissioned	1904
Decommissioned	1927
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass- armoured cruiser
Displacement	7,700 tonnes (7,578 long tons)
Length	130 m (426 ft 6 in)
Beam	17.87 m (58 ft 8 in)
Draft	7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Installed power	17,800 ihp (13,300 kW) 24 Belleville boilers
Propulsion	3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	531
Armament	4 × twin 164 mm (6.5 in) guns 4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 10 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The French cruiser Desaix was one of three Template:Sclass- armoured cruisers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

References

• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.