French cruiser Chanzy

History
France
Name	Chanzy
Namesake	General Antoine Chanzy
Ordered	18 December 1899
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux
Laid down	January 1890
Launched	24 January 1894
Commissioned	6 February 1894
Decommissioned	20 December 1894
In service	20 July 1895
Fate	Wrecked 20 May 1907; Wreck demolished 12 June 1907;
General characteristics
Class and type	Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser
Displacement	4,748 t (4,673 long tons)
Length	110.2 m (361 ft 7 in)
Beam	14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draught	6.06 m (19 ft 11 in)
Installed power	16 × Belleville boilers; 8,300–9,000 PS (6,105–6,619 kW);
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 × triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	16 officers and 378 enlisted men
Armament	2 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) guns; 6 × single 138 mm (5.4 in) guns; 4 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns; 4 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns; 8 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) 5-barreled revolver guns; 4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;
Armour	Waterline belt: 60–90 mm (2.4–3.5 in); Deck: 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in); Gun turrets: 92 mm (3.6 in); Conning tower: 92 mm (3.6 in);

Chanzy was an Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser built for the French Navy (Marine Navale) in the 1890s. Upon completion, she served in the Mediterranean Squadron and she was assigned to the International Squadron off the island of Crete during the 1897–1898 uprising there and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 to protect French interests and citizens. The ship was in reserve for several years in the middle of the first decade of the 20th century before she was transferred to French Indochina in 1906. Chanzy ran aground off the Chinese coast in mid-1907, where she proved impossible to refloat and was destroyed in place after her crew was rescued without loss.

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