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''Ernest Renan'' was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she participated in the hunt for the German battlecruiser and then joined the blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic. She took part in the Battle of Antivari later in August, and the seizure of Corfu in January 1916, but saw no further action during the war. After the war, the British and French intervened in the Russian Civil War; this included a major naval deployment to the Black Sea, which included ''Ernest Renan''. She served as a training ship in the late 1920s before she was sunk as a target ship in the 1930s. ==Design and description== ''Ernest Renan'' was intended to be a member of the , but naval architect Emile Bertin repeatedly tinkered with the design and decided to lengthen the ship in an attempt to increase her speed. She measured overall, with a beam of . ''Ernest Renan'' had a draft of and displaced . Her crew numbered either 750〔Silverstone, p. 80〕 or 824 officers and enlisted men.〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 307〕 The ship had three propeller shafts, each powered by a single vertical triple-expansion steam engine. They were rated at a total of using steam provided by 42 Niclausse boilers. The boilers were grouped into two sets of boiler rooms that were separated by the amidships gun turrets and their magazines and exhausted into six funnels. ''Ernest Renan'' had a designed speed of ,〔 but reached from during her sea trials. She initially carried up to of coal, although this was later reduced to ,〔 which gave her a range of at a speed of .〔 ''Ernest Renan''s main armament consisted of four 50-caliber Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 guns mounted in twin gun turrets fore and aft. Her intermediate armament was twelve 45-caliber Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893-96 guns. Eight of these were in single turrets on the forecastle deck and the other four were in casemates. For anti-torpedo boat defence she carried sixteen guns and eight Hotchkiss guns. She was also armed with two submerged torpedo tubes. During World War I, some of her lighter guns were replaced by anti-aircraft guns, but details are lacking.〔 The waterline armored belt of ''Ernest Renan'' was thick amidships and extended from below the waterline to above it. The armor thinned to forward of the foremast and aft of the mainmast. It did not extend all the way to the stern and terminated in a bulkhead. The upper strake of armor was thick and extended to the upper deck. The curved protective deck had a thickness of along its centerline that increased to at its outer edges and over the rudder. A watertight internal cofferdam, filled with cellulose, ran the length of the ship between the upper and main decks.〔 The main gun turrets had thick sides and roofs and the intermediate turrets were protected by sides and had roofs. The supports for the turrets ranged from in thickness for the main turrets and for the intermediate turrets. The conning tower was 203 mm thick.〔〔The armor layout is somewhat unclear; in ''Directory of the World's Capital Ships'', Silverstone provides different figures, including an armored belt thick and thinner protection for the main turrets and intermediate turrets, at and , respectively. See Silverstone, p. 82, for further details.〕 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 Ernest Renan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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