![]() Foudre, first seaplane carrier in history, with hangar and cranes.
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Name | Foudre |
Namesake | "Lightning" |
Builder | Chantiers de la Gironde, France |
Laid down | 9 June 1892 |
Launched | 20 Oct 1895 |
Completed | 1896 (as a torpedo boat depot ship) |
Decommissioned | 1 Dec 1921 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type | Torpedo boat tender / Seaplane carrier |
Tonnage | 6,100 tonnes (6,004 long tons) |
Length | 118.8 m (389 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 15.5 m (50 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
Installed power | 12,000 shp (8,948 kW) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engines, 24 boilers, 2 shafts |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 8 torpedo boats |
Complement | 430 |
Armament |
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Armour | Deck : 120 mm (4.7 in) |
Aircraft carried | 4 seaplanes after conversion |
The Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, the first in history.[1][2] Her development followed the invention of the seaplane in 1910 with the French Le Canard.
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