 Troude early in her career
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Troude |
| Ordered | 16 August 1886 |
| Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde |
| Laid down | 27 August 1886 |
| Launched | 22 October 1888 |
| Completed | January 1891 |
| Commissioned | 6 December 1888 |
| In service | 5 February 1891 |
| Out of service | 1 July 1906 |
| Stricken | 3 July 1907 |
| Fate | Broken up, c. 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Troude-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 1,877 t (1,847 long tons; 2,069 short tons) |
| Length | 95 m (311 ft 8 in) (lwl) |
| Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
| Draft | 4.27 m (14 ft) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) |
| Range | 2,110 nmi (3,910 km; 2,430 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 200 |
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Troude was a protected cruiser of the French Navy, the lead ship of the Troude class. The class was built as part of a construction program intended to provide scouts for the main battle fleet. They were based on the preceding Forbin class, the primary improvement being the addition of armor to the conning tower. Troude was built in the 1880s and was completed in late 1890. She was armed with a main battery of four 138 mm (5.4 in) guns, protected with an armor deck that was 41 mm (1.6 in) thick, and had a top speed of 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph).
Troude spent most of the 1890s in the Mediterranean Squadron, and in 1897, she was transferred to the Levant Division. There, she briefly served as the divisional flagship and later took part in the international intervention in the Cretan Revolt in 1897–1898. By 1901, Troude was in reserve, but she was reactivated in 1903 for a tour with the Atlantic Squadron. She patrolled fisheries off the coast of North America in 1904 before returning to the Atlantic Squadron in 1905. She was struck from the naval register in 1907 or 1908 and thereafter broken up for scrap.