![]() Victor Hugo in Corfu in 1916
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Name | Victor Hugo |
Namesake | Victor Hugo |
Ordered | 11 March 1901 |
Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
Laid down | 2 March 1903 |
Launched | 30 March 1904 |
Commissioned | 16 April 1907 |
Stricken | 20 January 1928 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 26 November 1930 |
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Type | Léon Gambetta-class armored cruiser |
Displacement | 12,550 t (12,352 long tons) |
Length | 149.07 m (489 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 21.4 m (70 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 8.18 m (26 ft 10 in) |
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Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 734; 779 as a flagship |
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Armor |
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The French cruiser Victor Hugo was the last of three Léon Gambetta-class armored cruisers built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the first decade of the 20th century. Armed with four 194-millimeter (7.6 in) guns, the ships were much larger and more powerfully-armed than their predecessors. Completed in 1907, she was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron (Escadre de la Méditerranée).
During World War I, Victor Hugo escorted convoys as well as the capital ships of the French fleet. The ship participated in the blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea until 1917 when she was reduced to reserve. Four years later, the cruiser was reactivated; she served in the Far East in 1922–1923 and went back into reserve upon her return. Victor Hugo was sold for scrap in 1930.