![]() Pothuau at anchor
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Class overview | |
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Preceded by | Amiral Charner class |
Succeeded by | Jeanne d'Arc |
History | |
Name | Pothuau |
Namesake | Louis Pothuau |
Ordered | 11 April 1893 |
Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, Granville |
Cost | 11,156,422 francs |
Laid down | 25 May 1893 |
Launched | 19 September 1895 |
Completed | 9 July 1897 |
Commissioned | 8 June 1897 |
Decommissioned | 12 June 1926 |
Stricken | 3 November 1927 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 25 September 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Armoured cruiser |
Displacement | 5,460 tonnes (5,374 long tons) |
Length | 113.1 m (371 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 15.3 m (50 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 Shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 455 (490 as flagship) |
Armament |
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Armour |
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The French cruiser Pothuau was an armoured cruiser built for the French Navy (Marine Navale) in the 1890s. She spent most of her active career in the Mediterranean before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1906. The ship participated in the Kamerun campaign early in World War I before she was transferred to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in 1916 where she patrolled and escorted convoys. Pothuau fruitlessly searched the Indian Ocean for the German commerce raider Wolf in mid-1917. The ship resumed her previous role after the war until she was decommissioned in 1926 and sold for scrap three years later.