Destrées-class cruiser

Class overview
Name: Destrées
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Châteaurenault (1898)
Succeeded by: Jurien de la Gravière
In commission: 1899–1922
Completed: 2
Retired: 2
General characteristics
Type: Protected cruiser
Displacement: 2,428 tonnes (2,390 long tons)
Length: 95 m (311 ft 8 in)
Beam: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught: 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Installed power: 8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion: 8 boilers
Speed: 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Complement: 250
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

  • Destrées (1897) – struck 1922
  • Infernet (1899) – ran aground 1910

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
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