French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (1899)

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History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NamesakeJoan of Arc
Laid downOctober 1896
Launched8 June 1899[1]
Commissioned1902
Decommissioned1928
Stricken1934
General characteristics
Class and typeCruiser
Displacement11 300 tonnes
Length145 m
Beam19.4 m
Draught8.10 m
Propulsionthree steam engines outputting 33,000 iHP, 36 boilers
Speed21.8 knots
Armament2 × 194 mm guns 14 × 138 guns

The Jeanne d'Arc was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy. At the time, she was the largest and most powerful of the French cruisers.

In 1903, she ferried President Émile Loubet to Algeria. In 1912, she replaced the Dugay-Trouin as school ship of the École Navale, departing from the tradition of using ships of the line for this purpose.

During the First World War, she was mobilised in the Atlantic squadron, and later in the Mediterranean squadron, patrolling the Dardanelles, Suez canal, and off Syria and Anatolia.

In 1919, she was reinstated as school ship, sailing nine campaigns. She was eventually decommissioned in 1928, and struck in 1934.

Sources

  • Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Eugene Kolesnik: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1880-1905. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1979, p. 304. ISBN 978-0-85177-133-5
  1. ^ Sergey Balakin (С. А. Балакин), VMS Francyi 1914-1918 gg. (ВМС Франции 1914-1918 гг.), Morskaya Kollektsya nr. 3/2000