French cruiser Amiral Charner

Amiral Charner at anchor, c. 1897
History
France
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
General characteristics
Class and type:	Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser
Displacement:	4,748 metric tons (4,673 long tons)
Length:	110.2 m (361 ft 7 in)
Beam:	14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draft:	6.06 m (19 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	16 × Belleville boilers 8,300 ihp (6,189 kW)
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
Armament:	2 single Mle 1887 194 mm (7.6 in) guns 6 single Mle 1887 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 4 × single QF Mle 1891 65 mm (2.6 in) guns 4 single QF Mle 1885 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 8 single 5-barreled 37 mm (1.5 in) revolver Hotchkiss guns 4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Waterline belt: 60–90 mm (2.4–3.5 in) Deck: 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) Gun turrets: 92 mm (3.6 in) Conning tower: 92 mm (3.6 in)

Amiral Charner was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy 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.

The Amiral Charner-class ships were designed to be smaller and cheaper than the preceding armored cruiser design, the Dupuy de Lôme. Like the older ship, they were intended to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École.

The ship measured 106.12 meters (348 ft 2 in) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 14.04 meters (46 ft 1 in). Amiral Charner had a forward draft of 5.55 meters (18 ft 3 in) and drew 6.06 meters (19 ft 11 in) aft. She displaced 4,748 metric tons (4,673 long tons) at normal load and 4,990 metric tons (4,910 long tons) at deep load.