French cruiser Jean Bart
For other ships of the same name, see French ship Jean Bart.
 Jean Bart off Toulon | |
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Jean Bart |
| 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 & type: | Alger-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4100 tonnes |
| Length: | 105.5 m (346 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.2 m (43 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 8 Scotch marine boilers,[1] 8000 HP |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
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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. 1893 she took part in the naval review during the World's Columbian Exhibition. 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.
References
- ↑ Louis-Émile Bertin: Marine boilers—their construction and working, dealing more especially with tubulous boilers - Ed. 2 (1906), tr. and ed. by Leslie S. Robertson. Freely available on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/marineboilersthe00bertuoft. page 30
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