French armoured cruiser Bruix (1894)

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Armoured cruiser Bruix
Career (France)
Name: Bruix
Namesake: Étienne Eustache Bruix
Builder: Rochefort
Laid down: September 1890
Launched: 2 August 1894
Completed: 1896
In service: 5 December 1896
Out of service: 21 June 1920
General characteristics
Class and type: Amiral Charner-class armoured cruiser
Displacement: 4,700 tonnes (4,626 long tons)
Length: 110 m (360 ft 11 in)
Beam: 14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Draught: 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
Propulsion: 2 × Creusot steam engines, 8,800 shp (6,562 kW), 16 boilers
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement: 410
Armament: • 2 × Canons de 164 mm Modèle 1893
• 4 × 138 mm (5.4 in) guns

Bruix was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, named in honour of Étienne Eustache Bruix.

After her trials in 1895, she served in the Caribbean and in the Far East. After the outbreak of the First World War, along with Surprise, she was sent off Africa to invade Cameroon, putting an end to the German colony of Kamerun. In 1916, she took part in operations in the Mediterranean and notably in the blockade of Greece in the Noemvriana.

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