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French cruiser Pothuau
Pothuau
Career (France) Civil and Naval Ensign of France
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]

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  1. "French Navy in World War I". naval-history.net. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrench.htm. Retrieved 27 June 2010. 
  2. 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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