Destrées class cruiser

Class overview
Name:	Destrées
Operators:	French Navy
Completed:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	2,500 tonnes (2,461 long tons)
Length:	95 m (311 ft 8 in)
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught:	5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Installed power:	8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion:	8 boilers
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement:	250
Armament:	• 4 × 164 mm (6.5 in) guns • 2 × 140 mm (5.5 in) guns • 4 × 100 mm (4 in) guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

The Destrées class was a type of protected cruiser of the French Navy, built in the late 1890s and which operated during the First World War.

Ships

• Destrées
• edit] Sources and references
  • Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870–2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005