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The ''Montcalm'' was a armoured cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s. ==Design and description== Designed by the naval architect Emile Bertin, the ''Gueydon''-class ships were intended to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École. They measured long overall with a beam of and had a draught of . ''Montcalm'' displaced . The ship had a crew of 566 officers and enlisted men.〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 305〕 The ''Gueydon'' class had three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for ''Montcalm''s engines was provided by 20 Normand Sigaudy boilers and they were rated at a total of that gave them a speed of . The ships carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of .〔Silverstone, p. 79〕 The ships of the ''Gueydon'' class had a main armament that consisted of two 40-caliber Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1893-96 guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their secondary armament comprised eight 45-caliber quick-firing (QF) Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893-96 guns in casemates. For anti-torpedo boat defense, they carried four 45-caliber QF guns on the forecastle deck, as well as ten QF and four QF Hotchkiss guns. They were also armed with two submerged torpedo tubes.〔〔 The Harvey armor belt of the ''Gueydon''-class cruisers covered most of the ships' hull. The lower strake of armor was generally thick, although it reduced to forward, aft, and thinned to at its lower edge. The upper strake of armor had thicknesses of and between the main and upper decks. The curved lower protective deck ranged in thickness from 51 to 56 millimetres. In addition there was a light armor deck thick at the top of the lower armor strake. A watertight internal cofferdam, filled with cellulose, stretched between these two decks. The gun turrets were protected by armor and had roofs thick. The 100-millimetre guns were protected by gun shields and the sides of the conning tower were 160 millimetres thick.〔〔 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 Montcalm (1900)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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