Engineering:List of cruisers of France

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French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet, carrying the Governor-General of French Indochina, mooring in the harbor of Tanjung Priok, Batavia, April 1929

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Unprotected cruisers

  • missing name (1860)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1861)
    • missing name (1861)
  • missing name (1862)
  • missing name (1862)
  • missing name (1869)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1866)
    • missing name (1866)
    • missing name (1867)
    • missing name (1867)
    • missing name (1867)
  • missing name (1868)
  • missing name (1867)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1871)
    • missing name (1874)
    • missing name (1872)
    • missing name (1872)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1874)
    • missing name (1874)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1869)
    • missing name (1870)
    • missing name (1872)
    • missing name (1872)
    • missing name (1872)
    • missing name (1872)
  • missing name (1869)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1876)
    • missing name (1877)
Painting of Duquesne
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1876) – struck 1901
    • missing name (1876) – struck 1901
  • missing name (1877)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1877) – wrecked 1898
    • missing name (1879)
    • missing name (1880)
    • missing name (1882)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1879)
    • missing name (1879)
    • missing name (1880)
    • missing name (1882)
  • missing name (1881) - struck 1901
  • missing name (1881)
  • missing name (1882)
  • missing name (1884)
  • missing name (1885)

Torpedo cruisers

missing name in the mid-1890s
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1885)
    • missing name (1886)
    • missing name (1887)
    • missing name (1889)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1891)
    • missing name (1893)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1892)
    • missing name (1894)
    • missing name (1895)

Protected cruisers

A large black ship with three masts and sail rigging sits in a harbor with several small boats alongside.
Sfax, the first French protected cruiser, early in her career
  • missing name (1884) – struck 1906
  • missing name (1886) – struck 1910
  • missing name (1888) – scrapped 1919
  • missing name (1889) – struck 1910
  • missing name (1893) – struck 1906
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1888) – scrapped 1921
    • missing name (1888) – struck 1906
    • missing name (1888) – struck 1921
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1888) – struck 1908
    • missing name (1889) - struck 1922
    • missing name (1889) - struck 1912
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1889) – sunk 1907
    • missing name (1891) – struck 1914
  • missing name (1889) – hulked 1911
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1893) – struck 1920
    • missing name (1893)
    • missing name (1893) – struck 1907
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1894) - struck 1910
    • missing name (1896) - struck 1911
    • missing name (1897) – struck 1920
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1894) – struck 1920
    • missing name (1895) - struck 1911
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1896) - struck 1914
    • missing name (1895) - struck 1921
    • missing name (1896) – struck 1924
Catinat, protected cruiser, 1896-1911
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1896) - struck 1911
    • missing name (1898) - struck 1910
  • missing name (1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
  • missing name (1897) – struck 1922
  • missing name (1898) – sunk 1917
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1897) – struck 1922
    • missing name (1899) – ran aground 1910
  • missing name (1899) – struck 1922

Armoured cruisers

  • missing name (1890)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
    • missing name (1894) – scrapped in 1920
    • missing name (1894) – wrecked 1907
    • missing name (1892) – scrapped 1926
  • missing name (1895) – scrapped 1929
  • missing name – scrapped 1934
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1899) – sunk 1944
    • missing name (1900) – scrapped 1943
    • missing name (1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name – scrapped 1922
    • missing name (1901) – scrapped 1927
    • missing name (1902) – sunk by mine 1917
Gloire-class cruiser seen from the Russian yacht Standart, circa 1912-13
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name
    • missing name
    • missing name (1901) – sunk 1905
    • missing name (1902)
    • missing name (1902)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1901) – torpedoed 1915
    • missing name (1903) – struck 1927
    • missing name (1904) – scrapped 1930
  • missing name (1905)
  • missing name (1906) – struck 1931
Waldeck-Rousseau
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1907) – struck 1930
    • missing name (1908) – destroyed 1943

Light cruisers

  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
  • Mulhouse (1920) – struck 1933
  • missing name (1920)
  • Colmar (1920)
  • Strasbourg (1920)
  • Thionville (1920)
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.[1]
    • missing name (1923) – scrapped 1952[2]
    • missing name (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945[2]
    • missing name – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.[3]
  • missing name[4] – scrapped 1966[5]
  • missing name (1933)[6] – struck 1959[7]
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.[8]
    • missing name (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.[9]
    • missing name (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.[9]
    • missing name – scuttled 27 November 1942.[9]
    • missing name – scrapped 1958[10]
    • missing name (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970[5]
    • missing name (1936) – scrapped 1959[10]
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.[11]
    • missing name (1946) – scrapped 1976[12]
    • Châteaurenault - cancelled 1939[13]
    • Guichen - cancelled 1939[13]
  • missing name (1948) – scrapped 1979
  • missing name (1948) – scrapped 1982
  • missing name (1956) – scrapped 2016

Heavy cruisers

  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1925) – scrapped 1955
    • missing name (1926) – scrapped 1962
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
    • missing name (1927) – scrapped 1974
    • missing name – scuttled 1942
    • missing name (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
    • missing name (1930) – scuttled 1942
  • missing name (1932) – scuttled 1942
  • Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
    • Saint-Louis
    • Henri IV
    • Charlemagne
    • Brennus
    • Charles Martel
    • Vercingetorix

Helicopter cruisers

  • missing name (1961) – decommissioned 2010

Notes and references

  • Jordan, John; Moulin, Jean (2013). French Cruisers 1922 – 1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-133-5. 
  • Whitley, M. J. (1999). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Brockhampton Press. ISBN 1-86019-8740. 

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