French cruiser Pothuau | |
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Name: | Pothuau |
Namesake: | Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau |
Builder: | FC de la Méditerranée |
Laid down: | January 1893 |
Launched: | September 1895 |
Commissioned: | January 1897 |
Decommissioned: | November 1927 |
Fate: | Broken up, 25 September 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Armoured cruiser |
Displacement: | 5,374 tonnes (5,289 long tons) |
Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement: | 459 |
Armament: |
• 2 × 7.6 in (190 mm) guns • 10 × 5.5 in (140 mm) Quick Firing Model 1891 and 1893 guns • 10 × 3-pounder guns • 8 × 1-pounder guns • 4 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
Pothuau was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, named after French admiral and politician Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau (1815–1882).
Service history[]
In August 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pothuau was serving in the Mediterranean Sea with 1st Armée Navale,[1] and was stationed off West Africa in 1915. The ship was sent to Egypt in 1916 before being given a refit. Pothuau became a gunnery training ship[2] until she was eventually replaced in this role by Gueydon. Pothuau was decommissioned in November 1927, and broken up from 25 September 1929.[2]
"The Pothuau, armoured cruiser on which the Franco-Russian Alliance was signed"
See also[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ "French Navy in World War I". naval-history.net. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrench.htm. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Pothuau". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/pothuau.htm. Retrieved 27 June 2010.
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