French cruiser Metz

Metz
Metz in 1920
History
France
Name: Metz
Namesake: Metz
Acquired: 20 July 1920
Struck: 18 August 1933
Fate: Scrapped in 1936
General characteristics
Class & type: Königsberg-class light cruiser
Displacement:
  • Design: 5,440 t (5,350 long tons)
  • Full load: 7,125 t (7,012 long tons)
Length: 151.40 m (496 ft 9 in)
Beam: 14.20 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft: 5.96 m (19 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 31,000 shp (23,000 kW), two shafts
Speed: 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph)
Range: 4,850 nmi (8,980 km; 5,580 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Crew:
  • 17 officers
  • 458 enlisted men
Armament:
Armor:
  • Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in)
  • Deck: 60 cm

Metz was a light cruiser of the French Navy. She was formerly the German cruiser Königsberg, and was ceded to the French Navy after the end of World War I.

Service history

After the end of World War I, the German cruiser Königsberg was surrendered to the Allied powers under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. She was transferred to France on 20 July 1920 as "A" at Cherbourg and commissioned into the French fleet as Metz.[1] Metz participated in the Rif War in the mid-1920s; on 7 September 1925, she and the battleship Paris and another ex-German cruiser Strasbourg supported a landing of French troops in North Africa. The three ships provided heavy gunfire support to the landing troops.[2] She remained in active service until 1933, when she was placed in reserve. She was stricken from the naval register on 18 August 1933 and broken up for scrap in 1936 at Brest.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Gröner, p. 113
  2. Álvarez, p. 185

References

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