French cruiser Marseillaise (1900)

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Armoured cruiser Marseillaise
Career (France)
Name: Marseillaise
Builder: Brest shipyard
Laid down: December 1899
Launched: 14 July 1900
Commissioned: 1903
Struck: 1929
Fate: Broken up, 1933
General characteristics
Class and type: Gloire-class cruiser
Displacement: 9,856 tonnes (9,700 long tons)
Length: 140 m (459 ft 4 in)
Beam: 20 m (65 ft 7 in)
Draught: 7.7 m (25 ft 3 in)
Propulsion: 8-boiler steam engine, 21,800 hp (16,256 kW)
Speed: 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph)
Complement: 615 men
Armament: • 2 × 194 mm (7.6 in) 40-calibre 1893 Model guns in single mounts
• 8 × 164 mm (6.5 in) 45-calibre 1893 Model guns in single mounts
• 6 × 100 mm (4 in) guns
• 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt : 150 mm (6 in)
Deck : 40 mm (2 in)
Turrets : 170 mm (7 in)

The Marseillaise was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.

In 1920, she escorted SS George Washington as she ferried US President Woodrow Wilson to the USA.[1]

In 1922, she was put in the reserve, and used as gunnery school from 1925. She was condemned on 13 February 1932 and broken up the next year.

References

  1. "Gloire Class". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/gloire_class.htm. Retrieved 12 June 2010.