French armoured cruiser Latouche-Tréville
| Latouche-Tréville | |
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Latouche-Tréville |
| Namesake: | Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville |
| Builder: | Le Havre |
| Launched: | 8 October 1892 |
| Commissioned: | 6 May 1895 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1920 |
| Out of service: | 1925 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1926 |
| 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 |
Latouche-Tréville was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, named in honour of Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.
Built in Le Havre by the Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée and launched on 8 October 1892, Latouche-Tréville served as a school ship of the École Navale, before being sent to the Eastern Mediterranean at the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War.
At the outbreak of the First World War, she was sent to Casablanca. In October 1914, she blockaded Otranto. She operated between Bizerte and Sardinia before joining the squadron of Admiral Guépratte, and took part in the bombing of Sukhumi;[citation needed] she distinguished herself in the action and received a congratulatory telegram from General Gouraud.
Latouche-Tréville performed two other patrols in the Dardanelles, before sailing to Thessaloniki. She took part in the blockade of Greece after the Noemvriana until the end of 1918, and returned to Toulon.
She was decommissioned on 26 June 1920, used as a floating hangar until 1925, and scrapped in 1926.
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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