French cruiser Amiral Charner

Amiral Charner at anchor, c. 1897
History
France
Name	Amiral Charner
Namesake	Admiral Léonard Charner
Builder	Arsenal de Rochefort
Laid down	June 1889
Launched	18 March 1893
Commissioned	26 August 1895
Fate	Sunk, 8 February 1916
General characteristics
Class and type	Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser
Displacement	4,748 t (4,673 long tons)
Length	110.2 m (361 ft 7 in)
Beam	14.04 m (46 ft 1 in)
Draught	6.06 m (19 ft 11 in)
Installed power	16 × Belleville boilers 8,300–9,000 PS (6,105–6,619 kW)
Propulsion	2 screws; 2 × triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	16 officers and 378 enlisted men
Armament	2 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) guns 6 × single 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 4 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns 4 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 8 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) 5-barreled revolver guns 4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armour	Waterline belt: 60–90 mm (2.4–3.5 in) Deck: 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) Gun turrets: 92 mm (3.6 in) Conning tower: 92 mm (3.6 in)

Amiral Charner was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy (Marine Navale) 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 1897-1898 revolt there and 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.