WW1 TURKEY FRANCE SYRIA SUEZ NAVY BATTLESHIP ARMOURED CRUISER D\'ENTRECASTEAUX
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WW1 TURKEY FRANCE SYRIA SUEZ NAVY BATTLESHIP ARMOURED CRUISER D\'ENTRECASTEAUX:
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French armoured cruiser D\'EntrecasteauxD’ENTRECASTEAUX (18th cen explorer) - 19knots, 2-24cm/12-13.86cm, 560 crew,1899D’Entrecasteaux& armoured cruiser \"Amiral Charner\"spent 1914 patrolling and bombarding the Syriancoast, and in February 1915 took part in the defenceof the Suez Canal against Turkish land attack withother British and French warships
(Source: Naval-History d\'Entrecasteaux was one of the finest French first-class cruisers, being laid down on June 28th 1894 at La Seyne and launched nearly two years later. ( building costs £667,000 or 16,693,000 francs0 had been struck for active service before world war one and had been reduced to a hulk. . Lent to Belgium in 1922 as a hulk. and was returned to France in `1926 when the Belgium navy was reduced in size. She was sold to Poland for scrap value on 7th march 1927. and was towed to Gdynia under the name of Krol Wladyslaw IV being again renamed in 1930 as Baltyk. again serving as a hulk. she was broken up by the German during world war two around 1942.
Built of steel, sheathed and coppered, her displacement was 8,114 tons, but while her IHP was 13,500, and her estimated speed was 19.5 knots, at her trials the highest speed obtained was 19.2 knots. Her length was 393 ft 6ins, her beam was 58 ft 6 ins and her mean draught was 23 ft 7 ins. She was well but lightly protected, her turret armour being 9.8 ins thick. Her armament consisted of two 9.4 breech-loaders, electrically maneuvered in fore and aft turrets, twelve 5.5 ins quick firers, six 1 pdr maxims and six torpedo tubes (two submerged).
(Source: Battleships-Cruisers (UK) website.)
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WW1 TURKEY FRANCE SYRIA SUEZ NAVY BATTLESHIP ARMOURED CRUISER D\'ENTRECASTEAUX:
$50.00