French cruiser Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet at Tanjung Priok, Dutch East Indies, while serving as transport for the Governor-General of Indochina, 1929
Class overview
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Léon Gambetta class
Succeeded by	Ernest Renan
History
Name	Jules Michelet
Namesake	Jules Michelet
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	June 1904
Launched	31 August 1905
Commissioned	November 1908
Fate	Sank as target 1937
General characteristics [1]
Type	Armoured cruiser
Displacement	13,105 t (12,898 long tons)
Length	146.53 m (480 ft 9 in) overall
Beam	21.41 m (70 ft 3 in)
Draught	8.41 m (27 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	3 vertical triple expansion steam engines, 28 Guyot du Temple boilers, 30,000 ihp (22,371 kW)
Speed	22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph)
Capacity	2,070 tonnes of coal
Complement	728
Armament	4 × 194 mm (7.6 in) guns in twin turrets 12 × 164 mm (6.5 in)/45 M1893-96M guns in eight single turrets and four casemates 24 × 47 mm (3-pounder) guns in single mountings 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) submerged torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: 71–152 mm (2.8–6 in) 193 mm turrets: 200 mm (8 in) 164 mm turrets: 130–170 mm (5.1–6.5 in) Casemates: 140 mm (5.5 in) Conning tower: 200 mm (8 in)

Jules Michelet was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, laid down in 1904 and completed in 1908. It was a development of the Léon Gambetta class of armoured cruisers, and was the sole representative of its type. It served during the First World War being eventually sunk as a target in 1937.