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.

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