French armoured cruiser Pothuau
| Pothuau | |
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Pothuau |
| Namesake: | Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau |
| Builder: | FC de la Méditerranée |
| Laid down: | January 1893 |
| Launched: | September 1895 |
| Commissioned: | January 1897 |
| Decommissioned: | November 1927 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 25 September 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,374 tonnes (5,289 long tons) |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement: | 459 |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 7.6 in (190 mm) guns • 10 × 5.5 in (140 mm) Quick Firing Model 1891 and 1893 guns • 10 × 3-pounder guns • 8 × 1-pounder guns • 4 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
Pothuau was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, named after French admiral and politician Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau (1815–1882).
Service history
In August 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pothuau was serving in the Mediterranean Sea with 1st Armée Navale,[1] and was stationed off West Africa in 1915. The ship was sent to Egypt in 1916 before being given a refit. Pothuau became a gunnery training ship[2] until she was eventually replaced in this role by Gueydon. Pothuau was decommissioned in November 1927, and broken up from 25 September 1929.[2]
- Pothuau-Bougault.jpg
"The Pothuau, armoured cruiser on which the Franco-Russian Alliance was signed"
See also
Media related to French armoured cruiser Pothuau at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ↑ "French Navy in World War I". naval-history.net. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrench.htm. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Pothuau". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/pothuau.htm. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
External links
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