For other ships of the same name, see French ship Amiral Charner.
Amiral Charner-class cruiser | |
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Class overview | |
Name: | Amiral Charner |
Operators: |
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In commission: | 1894–1896 |
Completed: | 4 |
Lost: | 2 |
Retired: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Armoured cruiser |
Displacement: | 4,700 tonnes (4,626 long tons) |
Length: | 110 m (360 ft 11 in) |
Beam: | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
Draught: | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 × Creusot steam engines, 8,800 shp (6,562 kW), 16 boilers |
Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement: | 410 |
Armament: |
• 2 × 194 mm (7.6 in) guns • 6 × 138 mm (5.4 in) guns • 4 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns • 4 × 47 mm (3pdr) guns • 6 × 37 mm revolver guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
The Amiral Charner class was a type of armoured cruiser of the French Navy which saw service during the First World War.
Ships[]
- Amiral Charner (1893) – sunk by torpedo, 1916.
- Bruix (1894) – scrapped, 1920.
- Chanzy (1894) – sunk, 1907.
- Latouche-Tréville (1892) – scrapped, 1926.
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References[]
- Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Eugene Kolesnik (ed.). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1979, p. 304. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
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