![]() Sister ship Amiral Charner at anchor, c. 1897
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Name | Bruix |
Namesake | Étienne Eustache Bruix |
Builder | Arsenal de Rochefort |
Laid down | September 1890 |
Launched | 2 August 1894 |
Commissioned | 1 December 1896 |
Stricken | 21 June 1920 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 21 June 1921 |
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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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Bruix was one of four Amiral Charner-class armored cruisers built for the French Navy (Marine Navale)in the 1890s. She served in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and in the Far East before World War I. In 1902 she aided survivors of the devastating eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique and spent several years as guardship at Crete, protecting French interests in the region in the early 1910s.
At the beginning of the war in August 1914, Bruix was assigned to protect troop convoys from French North Africa to France before she was transferred to the Atlantic to support Allied operations against the German colony of Kamerun in September. She was briefly assigned to support Allied operations in the Dardanelles in early 1915 before she began patrolling the Aegean Sea and Greek territorial waters.
The ship was decommissioned in Greece at the beginning of 1918 and recommissioned after the end of the war in November for service in the Black Sea against the Bolsheviks. Bruix returned home later in 1919 and was reduced to reserve before she was sold for scrap in 1921.