French cruiser Pothuau
Pothuau at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Preceded by: | Amiral Charner class |
| Succeeded by: | Jeanne d'Arc |
| History | |
| Name: | Pothuau |
| Namesake: | Louis Pothuau |
| Ordered: | 11 April 1893 |
| Builder: | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, Granville |
| Cost: | 11,156,422 francs |
| Laid down: | 25 May 1893 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1895 |
| Completed: | 9 July 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1897 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 June 1926 |
| Struck: | 3 November 1927 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 25 September 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 5,460 tonnes (5,374 long tons) |
| Length: | 113.1 m (371 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 15.3 m (50 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 Shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 455 (490 as flagship) |
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The French cruiser Pothuau was an armoured cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s. She spent most of her active career in the Mediterranean before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1906. The ship participated in the Kamerun Campaign early in World War I before she was transferred to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in 1916. Pothuau resumed her previous role after the war until she was decommissioned in 1926 and sold for scrap the following year.
Pothuau measured 113.1 metres (371 ft 1 in) long overall with a beam of 15.3 metres (50 ft 2 in) and had a maximum draught of 6.4 metres (21 ft 0 in). She displaced 5,460 tonnes (5,374 long tons) at normal load and 5,690 tonnes (5,600 long tons) at deep load. The ship was fitted with a prominent plough-shaped bow and was considered a good sea boat. They had a crew of 21 officers and 434 enlisted men; assignment as a flagship added 5 officers and 29 more sailors.
The ship had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single 4.4-metre (14 ft 5 in) propeller. Steam for the engines was provided by 18 Belleville boilers at a working pressure of 17 kg/cm2 (1,667 kPa; 242 psi) and the engines were rated at a total of 10,000 metric horsepower (7,400 kW) using forced draught. Pothuau exceeded her designed speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) during her sea trials, reaching 19.2 knots (35.6 km/h; 22.1 mph) from 10,398 PS (7,648 kW). She carried up to 630 tonnes (620 long tons) of coal and could steam for 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).
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