French cruiser Lavoisier
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Lavoisier |
| Namesake | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Laid down | 1893 |
| Launched | 17 April 1896 |
| Completed | 1897 |
| In service | December 1897 |
| Out of service | 14 December 1917 |
| Stricken | 7 June 1920 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement | 2300 tonnes |
| Length | 100.6 m (330 ft) |
| Beam | 10.7 m (35 ft) |
| Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft) |
| Installed power | 7,400 shp (5,500 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 Indret steam engines, 16 boilers |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 250 |
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Lavoisier was a protected cruiser of the French Navy, named in honour of Antoine Lavoisier.
Launched in Rochefort in April 1896, Lavoisier entered service in December 1897. She was then sent to Toulon as a replacement for the ageing Cosmao.
In 1903, she replaced the cruiser Isly as division chief at the station of Newfoundland.
During the First World War, Lavoisier patrolled the Atlantic and the English Channel, before being sent in Eastern Mediterranean in 1915.
In 1919, she was appointed to the station of Syria.
She was struck in 1920, and sold for scrap the next year.
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Lavoisier
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
- Meirat, Jean (1975). "Details and Operational History of the Third-Class Cruiser Lavoisier". F. P. D. S. Newsletter. III (3). Akron, Ohio: F. P. D. S.: 20–23.