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French cruiser Desaix

History
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:
Propulsion: 3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 531
Armament:

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.


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