French armoured cruiser Montcalm
- French armoured cruiser Montcalm
The "Montcalm" was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.
Before even completing her trials, she ferried the President of the Republic, Émile Loubet, to Russia. The reached Cronstadt on 20 May 1902.
An armoured cruiser (1898-1926). Built in la Seyne from 27 September 1898, she was launched on the 27 March 1900 and was commissioned on the 24 March 1902, before completing her trials, to ferry the President of the Republic, Émile Loubet, to Russia. She arrived in Cronstadt on the 20 May 1902, receiving Tsar Nicholas II for lunch aboard on the 23rd.
She later cruised in the Chinese Sea, notably ferrying Marshal Joseph Joffre in November 1921.
She was decommissioned on the 28 October 1926 and used as a school ship hulk, as Tremintin, in 1934. She was still docked in Brest in 1940 and was destroyed during the Occupation in 1943.
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