Destrées-class cruiser

Class overview

Name:	Destrées
Operators:	French Navy
Completed:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	2,428 tonnes (2,390 long tons)
Length:	95 m (311 ft 8 in)
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught:	5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Installed power:	8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion:	8 boilers
Speed:	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Complement:	250
Armament:	2 × 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 4 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 8 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns

The Destrées class was a type of protected cruiser of the French Navy, built in the late 1890s and which operated during the First World War.

Ships

Destrées
Infernet

Sources and 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

D'Estrées-class cruisers

D'Estrées Infernet

Preceded by: Guichen Followed by: Jurien de la Gravière

List of cruisers of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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