Naïade was an unprotected cruiser of the French Navy that was built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The ship was laid down in 1878 and completed in...
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Veracruz in 1838. French cruiser Naïade, (1881) a 3,500-tonne wooden frigate launched in 1881. French submarine Naïade (1904), a Naïade-class submarine...
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Forfait (1879) Magon (1880) Roland (1882) Iphigénie (1881) - struck 1901 Naïade (1881) Aréthuse (1882) Dubourdieu (1884) Milan (1885) Condor class Condor...
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finally signed aboard Naïade on 17 December 1885. By 1886, the French squadron operating off Madagascar also included the cruisers Naïade, Lapérouse, and Limier...
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(Q10) Morse class (1901–1914) Français (Q11) Algérien (Q12) Naïade class (1903–1914) Naïade (Q15) Protée (Q16) Perle (Q17) Esturgeon (Q18) Bonite (Q19)...
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unprotected cruiser of the French Navy built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The ship was originally intended to serve overseas in the French colonial...
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Galissonnière was the lead ship of her class of six light cruisers built for the Marine Nationale (French Navy) during the 1930s. She was named in honour of...
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unprotected cruiser of the Lapérouse class built for the French Navy in the 1870s and 1880s. The ship was intended to serve abroad in the French colonial...
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One of the cruisers, Jean de Vienne, was in drydock, helpless. After the Germans required the remnants of the French Army to disband, French sailors had...
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an unprotected cruiser of the Villars class built for the French Navy in the 1870s. The ships were designed for service in the French colonial empire...
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unprotected cruiser, the lead ship of her class, built for the French Navy in the 1870s. The ship was intended to serve abroad in the French colonial empire...
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Sfax was a protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1880s. She was the first vessel of the type to be built for the French Navy, which was a development...
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Dubordieu was an unprotected cruiser built for the French Navy in the early 1880s. Intended to serve as a long-range commerce raider, the ship was fitted...
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Free French. A French reconnaissance aircraft detected the fleet at 07:00 that morning, and to oppose the landing, the French had one light cruiser, nine...
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Aréthuse was an unprotected cruiser built for the French Navy. The ship was laid down in 1879 and completed in 1885. Intended to serve as a long-range...
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cruisers became the new focus for French naval architects in 1929. The design had to respect the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which limited the French to...
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unprotected cruisers built for the French Navy in the 1870s. The ships were intended to fill multiple roles, including as scouts for the French fleet, and...
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Kinugasa (衣笠) was the second vessel in the two-vessel Aoba class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Kinugasa...
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commissioned in June 1929. In 1937, Thétis sank the decommissioned armored cruiser Jules Michelet as a target. When World War II began with Nazi Germany′s...
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built for the French Navy in the 1930s. She and her sister ship Dunkerque were designed to defeat the German Deutschland class of heavy cruisers that had been...
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Marseillaise was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class. During the Second World War, she remained with Vichy France. The La Galissonnière...
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Primauguet was a French Duguay-Trouin-class light cruiser built after World War I. During the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in 1942, she...
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Thor (HSK 4) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II, intended for service as a commerce raider. Also known to the Kriegsmarine...
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sister ships Antiope and Sibylle covered Force Y, a French Navy force consisting of three cruisers and three destroyers, as it arrived at Casablanca from...
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USS Northampton (CA-26) (category Northampton-class cruisers)
Northampton-class cruiser, in service with the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1930, originally classified a light cruiser because of her thin...
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HNLMS De Ruyter (1880) (category Atjeh-class cruisers)
Ruyter sailed to Martinique in order to dock there. Here she met the French cruiser Naïade, the Magon and Hussard. On 3 February De Ruyter entered the dry...
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Jean de Vienne was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class. During World War II, she remained with Vichy France. She was named for Jean de...
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Mogador was the lead ship of the French Navy's Mogador class of destroyers (French: contre-torpilleur). Named after the Moroccan town, she was built before...
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Volta was a Mogador-class destroyer (French: contre-torpilleur) of the French Navy. Named for the West African river, she was built before the outbreak...
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Squadron: the light cruisers HMS Weymouth and Bristol and the protected cruisers Topaze and Sapphire. Two French armored cruisers and twelve destroyers...
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