French seaplane carrier Foudre
The Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, the first in history. Her development followed the invention of the seaplane in 1910 with the French Le Canard.
Foudre, first seaplane carrier in history, with hangar and cranes. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Foudre |
| Namesake | "Lightning" |
| Builder | Chantiers de la Gironde, France |
| Laid down | 9 June 1892 |
| Launched | 20 Oct 1895 |
| Completed | 1896 (as a torpedo boat depot ship) |
| Decommissioned | 1 Dec 1921 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Torpedo boat tender / Seaplane carrier |
| Tonnage | 6,100 tonnes (6,004 long tons) |
| Length | 118.8 m (389 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 15.5 m (50 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | 12,000 shp (8,948 kW) |
| Propulsion | Triple expansion engines, 24 boilers, 2 shafts |
| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 8 torpedo boats |
| Complement | 430 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Deck : 120 mm (4.7 in) |
| Aircraft carried | 4 seaplanes after conversion |
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