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CHÂTEAURENAULT protected cruiser (1902)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Châteaurenault     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 5/1896 12.5.1898 9/1902 sunk 14.12.1917


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

7898

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

135.0 wl

Breadth, m

17.0

Draught, m

7.39 max

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 VTE, 14 Normand Sigaudy boilers

Power, h. p.

23000

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

coal 2100

Endurance, nm(kts)

7500(12)

Armour, mm

Harvey; deck: 55 with 100mm slopes, casemates: 60 - 40, shields: 55, CT: 160

Armament

2 x 1 - 165/45 M1893, 6 x 1 - 139/45 M1893, 10 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 5 x 1 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

604



Project history

In essentials similar to the Guichen and with identical protection but of very different appearance. There were four equally spaced funnels, two masts, and a forecastle deck running from the slightly sloped stem to just short of the overhanging stern, the intention being to make disguise as an unknown liner relatively easy. The 165mm were fore and aft with the 139mm in upper deck casemates or sponsons. The Châteaurenault was considered a belter steamer than Guichen. Commissioning was delayed because of considerable vibration between 18 and 21kts. As result ship was returned to dockyard from October 1899 to September 1902.

Ship protection

The guns had 55mm protection and there was 160mm Harvey nickel on the CT with a 150mm tube. The armour deck rose from 1.4m below the water to 0.8m above amidships, and was here 55mm on the flat and 100mm on the slopes reduced to 40mm at the ends. There was a splinter deck 1.2m above the armour deck crown with a cofferdam berween them at the sides.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Châteaurenault was torpedoed and sunk by German submarines UC38 between Taranto and Corfu off Cephalonia (Ionian Sea) 14.12.1917, but the loss of life was small.