French cruiser Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet at Tanjung Priok, Dutch East Indies, while serving as transport for the Governor-General of Indochina, 1929 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Léon Gambetta class |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Renan |
| History | |
| Name | Jules Michelet |
| Namesake | Jules Michelet |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | June 1904 |
| Launched | 31 August 1905 |
| Commissioned | November 1908 |
| Fate | Sank as target 1937 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armoured cruiser |
| Displacement | 13,105 t (12,898 long tons) |
| Length | 146.53 m (480 ft 9 in) overall |
| Beam | 21.41 m (70 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | 3 vertical triple expansion steam engines, 28 Guyot du Temple boilers, 30,000 ihp (22,371 kW) |
| Speed | 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) |
| Capacity | 2,070 tonnes of coal |
| Complement | 728 |
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Jules Michelet was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, laid down in 1904 and completed in 1908. It was a development of the Léon Gambetta class of armoured cruisers, and was the sole representative of its type. It served during the First World War being eventually sunk as a target in 1937.