French armoured cruiser Jules Ferry (1903)

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Jules Ferry
Career (France)
Name: Jules Ferry
Namesake: Jules Ferry, French statesman
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: October 1901
Launched: August 1903
In service: September 1905
Out of service: 19 January 1927
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1928
General characteristics
Class and type: Léon Gambetta-class cruiser
Displacement: 12,400 tonnes (12,204 long tons)
Length: 146.45 m (480 ft 6 in)
Beam: 21.41 m (70 ft 3 in)
Draught: 8.05 m (26 ft 5 in)
Propulsion: 3 vertical triple expansion steam engines, 28 Niclausse boilers, 28,500 hp (21,252 kW)
Speed: 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph)
Capacity: 2,065 tonnes of coal
Complement: 728
Armament: • 4 × 193 mm (7.6 in)/40 M1896 guns in twin turrets
• 16 × 164 mm (6.5 in)/45 M1887 guns in four single and six twin turrets
• 24 × 3-pounder guns in single mountings
• 2 × 18 in (460 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 2.8–6 in (71–150 mm) Krupp armour
Turrets: 8 in (200 mm) Krupp armour
C.T.: 8 in (200 mm) Krupp armour

The Jules Ferry was a French Navy armoured cruiser of 12,400 tons of the Léon Gambetta class. She was launched in 1903 at Lorient.

After her commissioning, she was appointed to the 2nd light cruiser division in the Mediterranean.

She was struck in 1927, and sold for scrap the next year.

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