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:	Dupleix-class 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 Dupleix-class 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.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.