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''Amiral Charner'' was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s, the name ship of her class. She spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, although she was sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900–01. The ship was assigned to the International Squadron off the island of Crete during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 to protect French interests and citizens. ''Amiral Charner'' spent most of the first decade of the 20th century as a training ship or in reserve. The ship was recommissioned when World War I began in 1914 and escorted convoys for several months before she was assigned to the Eastern Mediterranean to blockade the Ottoman-controlled coast. During this time, she helped to rescue several thousand Armenians from Syria during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. ''Amiral Charner'' was sunk in early 1916 by a German submarine, with only a single survivor rescued. ==Design and description== The ''Amiral Charner''-class ships were designed to be smaller and cheaper than the preceding armored cruiser design, the . Like the older ship, they were intended to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École.〔Feron, pp. 8–9〕 The ship measured between perpendiculars, with a beam of . ''Amiral Charner'' had a forward draft of and drew aft. She displaced at normal load and at deep load.〔Feron, p. 15〕 The ''Amiral Charner'' class had two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for the engines was provided by 16 Belleville boilers and they were rated at a total of using forced draught. ''Amiral Charner'' had a designed speed of , but during sea trials on 18 July 1895 the engines produced , but only gave a maximum speed of . The ship carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of .〔Feron, pp. 15, 17〕 The ships of the ''Amiral Charner'' class had a main armament that consisted of two Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1887 guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their secondary armament comprised six Canon de 138.6 mm Modèle 1887 guns, each in single gun turrets on each broadside. For anti-torpedo boat defense, they carried four guns, four and eight five-barreled revolving Hotchkiss guns. They were also armed with four pivoting torpedo tubes; two mounted on each broadside above water.〔Feron, pp. 11, 15〕 The side of the ''Amiral Charner'' class was generally protected by of steel armor, from below the waterline to above it. The bottom tapered in thickness and the armor at the ends of the ships thinned to . The curved protective deck of mild steel had a thickness of along its centerline that increased to at its outer edges. Protecting the boiler rooms, engine rooms, and magazines below it was a thin splinter deck. A watertight internal cofferdam, filled with cellulose, ran the length of the ship from the protective deck〔Feron, pp. 12, 15〕 to a height of above the waterline.〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 304〕 Below the protective deck the ship was divided by 13 watertight transverse bulkheads with five more above it. The ship's conning tower and turrets were protected by 92 millimeters of armor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French cruiser Amiral Charner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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