French cruiser Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan at anchor
Class overview
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Jules Michelet
Succeeded by	Edgar Quinet class
History
Name	Ernest Renan
Namesake	Ernest Renan
Builder	Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire
Laid down	21 October 1903
Launched	9 April 1906
Completed	1909
Out of service	1931
Stricken	1931
Fate	Sunk as a target ship, 1931
General characteristics
Type	Armored cruiser
Displacement	13,644 tonnes (13,429 long tons)
Length	159 m (521 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam	21.5 m (70 ft 6 in)
Draft	8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Installed power	37,000 ihp (28,000 kW) 42 × Niclausse boilers
Propulsion	3 × triple-expansion steam engines 3 × screw propellers
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range	5,100 nmi (9,400 km; 5,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	750 or 824
Armament	2 twin 194 mm (7.6 in) guns 12 single 164 mm (6.5 in) guns 16 single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns 8 single 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 58–152 mm (2.3–6 in) Primary gun turrets: 203 mm (8 in) Intermediate gun turrets: 170 mm (6.5 in) Bulkhead: 89 mm (3.5 in) Deck: 46–66 mm (1.8–2.6 in) Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm)

Ernest Renan was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she participated in the hunt for the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and then joined the blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic. She took part in the Battle of Antivari later in August, and the seizure of Corfu in January 1916, but saw no further action during the war. After the war, the British and French intervened in the Russian Civil War; this included a major naval deployment to the Black Sea, which included Ernest Renan. She served as a training ship in the late 1920s before she was sunk as a target ship in the 1930s.