French cruiser Desaix
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| History |
 France
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| Name: |
Desaix |
| Laid down: |
November 1897 |
| Launched: |
March 1901 |
| Commissioned: |
1904 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Dupleix-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: |
7,700 tonnes (7,578 long tons) |
| Length: |
130 m (426 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: |
17.87 m (58 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: |
7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power: |
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| Propulsion: |
3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: |
20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: |
531 |
| Armament: |
- 4 × twin 164 mm (6.5 in) guns
- 4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns
- 10 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
- 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
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The French cruiser Desaix was one of three Dupleix-class armoured cruisers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
References
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.