History | |
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France | |
Name: | Desaix |
Laid down: | November 1897 |
Launched: | March 1901 |
Commissioned: | 1904 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Dupleix-class armoured cruiser |
Displacement: | 7,700 tonnes (7,578 long tons) |
Length: | 130 m (426 ft 6 in) |
Beam: | 17.87 m (58 ft 8 in) |
Draft: | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
Installed power: |
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Propulsion: | 3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement: | 531 |
Armament: |
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The French cruiser Desaix was one of three Dupleix-class armoured cruisers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.