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Pothuau 1897

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pothuau			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	1.1893	19.9.1895	1.1897	gunnery TS 1919, stricken 11.1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5374
Displacement full, t
Length, m	110.0 pp 113.0 oa
Breadth, m	15.3
Draught, m	6.48 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 18 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 640
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(10)
Armour, mm	Nickel steel; belt: 60 - 35, turrets: 170 - 140, casemates: 55, deck: 85 - 35, CT: 230
Armament	2 x 1 - 194/40 M1893, 10 x 1 - 139/45 M1891/M1893, 10 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 8 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 4 - 450 TT (aw, beam)
Complement	459

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Project history

Sometimes classed as protected cruiser on account of thin belt

Ship protection

Thin complete belt protected area from 1.5m below to 2.5m above water, its lower edge was connected with 35mm curved main deck by 85mm slopes. 8 139mm guns were placed in casemates and 2 amidships gun were protected by open back shields.

Modernizations

1919: - 2 x 1 - 194/40; + 2 x 1 - 75/63 M1908 AA

Naval service

Became outdate before WWI and by 1914 served as gunnery TS. She was regarded as good sea boat. Late in the war Pothuau returned to Toulon, and was converted to air balloon carrier. In 1919 she again became gunnery TS, thus turrets were been replaced by antiaircraft guns.