Engineering:Destrées-class cruiser

Class overview
Name:	Destrées
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Châteaurenault (1898)
Succeeded by:	Jurien de la Gravière
In commission:	1899–1922
Completed:	2
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	2,428 tonnes (2,390 long tons)
Length:	95 m (311 ft 8 in)
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught:	5.4 m (17 ft 9 in)
Installed power:	8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion:	8 boilers
Speed:	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Complement:	250
Armament:	2 × 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 4 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 8 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns

The Destrées class was a type of protected cruiser of the French Navy, built in the late 1890s and which operated during the First World War.

Ships

• Destrées (1897) – struck 1922

Sources and references

• Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870–2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005