French cruiser Edgar Quinet
Edgar Quinet in 1913
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| Name: | Edgar Quinet |
| Namesake: | Edgar Quinet |
| Builder: | Lorient |
| Laid down: | November 1905 |
| Launched: | 21 September 1907 |
| Commissioned: | January 1911 |
| Homeport: | Toulon |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 4 January 1930 |
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| Class and type: | Edgar Quinet-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 13,847 t (13,628 long tons; 15,264 short tons) |
| Length: | 158.9 m (521 ft) |
| Beam: | 21.51 m (70 ft 7 in) |
| Draft: | 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power: | 40 Belleville boilers, 36,000 ihp (26,845 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 3 triple expansion engines, 3 shafts |
| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Crew: | 859–892 |
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Edgar Quinet was an armored cruiser of the French Navy, the lead ship of her class. She and her sister ship, Waldeck-Rousseau, were the last class of armored cruiser to be built by the French Navy. Edgar Quinet was laid down in November 1905, launched in September 1907, and completed in January 1911. Armed with a main battery of fourteen 194-millimeter (7.6 in) guns, she was more powerful than most other armored cruisers, but she had entered service more than two years after the first battlecruiser—HMS Invincible—had rendered armored cruisers obsolescent.
At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Edgar Quinet participated in the hunt for the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and then joined the blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic. She took part in the Battle of Antivari later in August, and the seizure of Corfu in January 1916, but saw no further action during the war. In 1922, she evacuated over a thousand civilians from Smyrna during the climax of the Greco-Turkish War. Converted into a training ship in the mid-1920s, Edgar Quinet ran aground on a rock off the Algerian coast on 4 January 1930 and sank five days later.
Edgar Quinet was 158.9 meters (521 ft) long overall, with a beam of 21.51 m (70.6 ft) and a draft of 8.41 m (27.6 ft). She displaced 13,847 metric tons (13,628 long tons; 15,264 short tons). Her power plant consisted of three triple-expansion engines powered by forty coal-fired Belleville boilers, which were trunked into six funnels in two groups of three. Her engines were rated at 36,000 indicated horsepower (27,000 kW) and produced a top speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). She had a crew of between 859 and 892 officers and enlisted men.
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