![]() Amiral Charner at anchor, c. 1897
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Name | Amiral Charner |
Namesake | Admiral Léonard Charner |
Builder | Arsenal de Rochefort |
Laid down | June 1889 |
Launched | 18 March 1893 |
Commissioned | 26 August 1895 |
Fate | Sunk, 8 February 1916 |
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Class and type | Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser |
Displacement | 4,748 t (4,673 long tons) |
Length | 110.2 m (361 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 14.04 m (46 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 6.06 m (19 ft 11 in) |
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Propulsion | 2 screws; 2 × triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers and 378 enlisted men |
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Amiral Charner was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy (Marine Navale) in the 1890s, the name ship of her class. She spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, although she was sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900–01. The ship was assigned to the International Squadron off the island of Crete during 1897-1898 revolt there and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 to protect French interests and citizens. Amiral Charner spent most of the first decade of the 20th century as a training ship or in reserve. The ship was recommissioned when World War I began in 1914 and escorted convoys for several months before she was assigned to the Eastern Mediterranean to blockade the Ottoman-controlled coast. During this time, she helped to rescue several thousand Armenians from Syria during the Armenian genocide of 1915. Amiral Charner was sunk in early 1916 by a German submarine, with only a single survivor rescued.