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Jeanne d`Arc 1948 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Jeanne d`Arc	1950- C605	M6	A C de la Loire et Penhoët, St-Nazaire	31.8.1928	14.2.1930	14.9.1931	FNFL 6.1943, TS 7.1946, stricken 7.1964

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	6496
Displacement full, t	8950
Length, m	160.0 pp 170.0 oa
Breadth, m	17.7
Draught, m	6.40 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Penhoët boilers
Power, h. p.	32500
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 1400
Endurance, nm(kts)	5200(11)
Armour, mm	magazines: 20, turrets: 25, CT: 25
Armament	4 x 2 - 155/50 M1920, 4 x 1 - 75/50 M1927, 2 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 2 x 1 - 550 TT, 2 seaplanes (FBA.17, CAMS.37, GL.810)
Complement	506 + 176 cadets

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Project history

Built under 1927 programme. Purpose built training ship for midshipmen. To cruisers this ship was referred on formal characteristics, as displacement and artillery calibre. On 3hour trials she reached 27.03kts at 39000hp.

Ship protection

magazines had 20mm box-shaped protection.

Modernizations

1935: + 4 x 2 - 13.2/76

1/1942: + 6 x 1 - 12.7/90

9/1943: - 2 x 1 - 37/50, 4 x 2 - 13.2/76, 6 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 1 - 550 TT; + 6 x 1 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 20 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, SF radar

5/1944: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 4 x 1 - 40/56 Mk 1.2

Naval service

At the moment of armistice Jeanne d`Arc was on Martinique. Under the agreement from 1.5.1942 she was disarmed. After 3.6.1943 Government of Martinique recognised the Algerian Government, cruiser passed to the USA for repair and armed again in May, 1944. Jeanne d`Arc after war served as school ship until 1964.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.