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''Waldeck-Rousseau'' was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the second and final member of the , the last class of armored cruiser to be built by the French Navy. She was laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient in June 1906, launched in March 1908, and commissioned in August 1911. Armed with a main battery of fourteen guns, she was more powerful than most other armored cruisers, but she had entered service more than two years after the first battlecruiser——had rendered the armored cruiser obsolescent. ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' nevertheless proved to be a workhorse of the French Mediterranean Fleet. After the outbreak of World War I, ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' joined the main French fleet that blockaded the southern end of the Adriatic to prevent the Austro-Hungarian Navy from operating in the Mediterranean. In October and November, ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' was twice attacked by Austro-Hungarian U-boats but she escaped unscathed in both engagements. She thereafter alternated between stints in the southern Adriatic and patrols in the eastern Mediterranean once the Ottoman Empire joined the war in November. After the war, the British and French intervened in the Russian Civil War; this included a major naval deployment to the Baltic Sea, which included ''Waldeck-Rousseau''. Shortly after arriving, her crew mutinied due to poor living conditions and a desire to return to France. The unrest was quickly suppressed, and ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' joined the effort to support the Whites against the Red Bolsheviks. In May 1929, the ship was sent to French Indochina to serve as the flagship of the Far East squadron. She remained there until May 1932, when she returned to France, where she was decommissioned and hulked. ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' was ultimately scrapped in 1941–44. ==Description== (詳細はlong overall, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . Her power plant consisted of three triple-expansion engines powered by forty coal-fired Niclausse boilers, which were trunked into six funnels in two groups of three. Her engines were rated at and produced a top speed of . She had a crew of between 859 and 892 officers and enlisted men.〔Osborne, p. 192〕〔 ''Waldeck-Rousseau'' was armed with a main battery of fourteen 50-caliber M1902 guns; four were in twin gun turrets forward and aft, with three single gun turrets on either broadside. The last four guns were mounted in casemates abreast the main and aft conning towers. Close-range defense against torpedo boats was provided by a battery of twenty 9-pounder guns in casemates in the ship's hull. She was also equipped with two torpedo tubes submerged in the hull. She was protected with a armored belt that was thick amidships. The gun turrets had thick plating, while the casemates had marginally thinner protection, at 194 mm. The main conning tower had 200 mm thick sides.〔〔 During World War I, several 14-pounder and 9-pounder anti-aircraft guns were added, with the older 9-pounder guns being removed to keep displacement down. In 1930, she was modified to carry a reconnaissance seaplane.〔 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 Waldeck-Rousseau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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