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The French cruiser ''Pothuau'' was an armoured cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s. She spent most of her active career in the Mediterranean before becoming a gunnery training ship in 1906. The ship participated in the Kamerun Campaign early in World War I before she was transferred to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in 1916. ''Pothuau'' resumed her previous role after the war until she was decommissioned in 1926 and sold for scrap the following year. ==Design and description== ''Pothuau'' measured long overall with a beam of and had a maximum draught of . She displaced at normal load and at deep load.〔Wright & Becker, pp. 137, 145〕 The ship was fitted with a prominent plough-shaped bow and was considered a good sea boat.〔Silverstone, p. 76〕 They had a crew of 21 officers and 434 enlisted men; assignment as a flagship added 5 officers and 29 more sailors.〔 The ship had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller. Steam for the engines was provided by 18 Belleville boilers at a working pressure of and the engines were rated at a total of using forced draught. ''Pothuau'' exceeded her designed speed of during her sea trials, reaching from . She carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of .〔Wright & Becker, p. 145〕 ''Pothuau''s main armament consisted of two 40-calibre Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1893 guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure.〔 The guns fired shells at muzzle velocities ranging from .〔Friedman, p. 218〕 The ship's secondary armament comprised ten 40-calibre Canon de 138.6 mm Modèle 1893 guns, five on each broadside in casemates.〔 Their shells were fired at muzzle velocities of .〔Friedman, p. 224〕 For close-range anti-torpedo boat defense, she carried a dozen quick-firing (QF) and eight QF Hotchkiss guns. ''Pothuau'' was also armed with five above water torpedo tubes.〔 ''Pothuau'' was protected by a nickel-steel〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 304〕 armour belt that ranged in thickness from amidships to at the ship's ends. It extended from below the waterline to above it. The curved protective deck was thick. The armour protecting the conning tower was thick.〔 Protecting the boiler rooms, engine rooms, and magazines below it was a thin splinter deck.〔 The turret armour was thick and the casemates were protected by armour plates thick. All told the ship's armour weighed .〔 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 Pothuau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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