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Suchet 1900s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Suchet			Arsenal de Toulon	10/1887	10.8.1893	1894	stricken 1906

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3362
Displacement full, t
Length, m	97.0
Breadth, m	12.0
Draught, m	6.10 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 24 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	9500
Max speed, kts	20.4
Fuel, t	coal 836
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 80 with 100mm slopes, CT: 70
Armament	6 x 1 - 165/30 M1884, 4 x 1 - 100/45 M1891, 8 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 8 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 7 - 350 TT (1 bow sub, 6 beam aw)
Complement	335

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Project history

Suchet was originally intended as a sister of the Davout, and was similar to this vessel but had a longer hull. The 100mm guns were located abaft and before the forecastle and poop 165mm.

Ship protection

The armour deck was curved from 0.5m above water to 1.1m below amidships with a max total thickness of 80mm increased to 100mm at the slopes. There was a cofferdam about 1.2m wide above the armour deck, and the small CT had 70mm armour. There was a cellular layer above with a height of about 0.45m at the armour deck crown, and a light debris deck over the machinery spaces.

Modernizations

1900s: military masts were replaced by poles.

Naval service

No significant events.