French cruiser Jean Bart (1889)

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The Jean Bart off Toulon
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Namesake: Jean Bart
Ordered: 18 September 1886
Builder: Rochefort shipyard
Laid down: December 1886
Launched: 24 October 1889
Commissioned: 1892
Decommissioned: 1897
In service: 1893
Fate: ran aground and lost on 11 February 1907
General characteristics
Class and type: Alger class protected cruiser
Displacement: 4100 tonnes
Length: 105.5 m
Beam: 13.2 m
Draught: 6.5 m
Propulsion: 8 boilers, 8000 HP
Speed: 18 knots
Armament:

4 × 164 mm gun
6 × 140 mm guns

4 torpedo tubes

The Jean Bart was a 4800-tonne first class iron protected cruiser of the French Navy.

She was built in Rochefort in 1886 and commissioned in 1892. She was reinstated second class cruiser in 1897 and was sent to East Asia. In 1902, she returned to Lorient to be decommissioned.

She was recommissioned in 1906 and sent to the Caribbean. She ran aground in 1907 at Ras Nouadhibou and became a total loss.

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