| French cruiser Metz | |
|---|---|
| Career (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; 6,000 short tons) Full load: 7,125 t (7,012 long tons; 7,854 short tons) |
| Length: | 151.4 m (497 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.2 m (47 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.96 m (19.6 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 31,000 shp (23,000 kW), two shafts |
| Speed: | 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,850 nmi (8,980 km; 5,580 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Crew: |
17 officers 458 enlisted men |
| Armament: |
8 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns 200 mines |
| 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[]
References[]
- Álvarez, José E. (2001). The Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion During the Rif Rebellion, 1920–1927. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30697-4.
- Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9.
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