D'Estrées-class cruiser
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.
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Destrées |
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| Preceded by: | Châteaurenault |
| Succeeded by: | Jurien de la Gravière |
| In commission: | 1899–1922 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 2,428 long tons (2,467 t) |
| Length: | 95 m (311 ft 8 in) loa |
| Beam: | 12 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draft: | 5.39 m (17 ft 8 in) |
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| Speed: | 20 to 20.5 knots (37.0 to 38.0 km/h; 23.0 to 23.6 mph) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 235 |
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| Armor: | Deck: 38 to 43 mm (1.5 to 1.7 in) |
Design
The ships had a cruising radius of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).[1]
Ships
- D'Estrées (1897) – struck 1922
Notes
- Garbett, p. 563.
References
- Fisher, Edward C., ed. (1969). "157/67 French Protected Cruiser Isly". Warship International. Toledo: International Naval Research Organization. VI (3): 238. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations; An Illustrated Directory. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
- Garbett, H., ed. (May 1904). "Naval Notes: France". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. London: J. J. Keliher & Co. XLVIII (315): 560–566. OCLC 1077860366.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-85177-133-5.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8.
- Ropp, Theodore (1987). Roberts, Stephen S. (ed.). The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1871–1904. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-141-6.
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