Cruiser class
French cruiser Algérie
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Preceded by
- Suffren-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Saint-Louis-class cruiser (planned)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 13,461 long tons (13,677 t)
- Length
- 186.2 m (610.9 ft) OA
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 746
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- Initial
- 8 × 203 mm/50 guns (4 × 2)
- 12 × 100 mm/45 guns (6 × 2)
- 4 × 37 mm light AA guns (4 × 1)
- 16 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns (4 × 4)
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (3 × 2)
- 1941 refit
- 8 × 203 mm/50 guns (4 × 2)
- 12 × 100 mm/45 guns (6 × 2)
- 8 × 37 mm light AA guns (4 × 2)
- 4 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns (4 × 1)
- 16 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns (4 × 4)
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (3 × 2)
Sources
- Facts harvested from French cruiser Algérie on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.