Dupuy de Lôme (ship, 1890)
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 The armored cruiser Dupuy de Lôme |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Armored cruiser |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 4th July 1888 |
| Launch | October 27, 1890 |
| delivery | April 1, 1892 |
| Namesake | Stanislas Charles Dupuy de Lôme |
| Decommissioning | February 1, 1910 |
| Whereabouts | 1923 demolished |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
6,400 t |
| length |
114 m waterline, |
| width |
15.7 m |
| Draft |
7.9 m |
| crew |
480 men |
| drive |
20 type du Temple boilers , |
| speed |
20 kn |
| Armament |
• 2 × 194 mm cannons |
| Armor |
steel |
| Armored deck |
up to 120 mm |
| Belt armor |
up to 100 mm |
| artillery |
up to 100 mm |
The Dupuy de Lôme was the first French armored cruiser . The cruiser named after the naval engineer Stanislas Charles Dupuy de Lôme was in service with the French fleet from 1892 to 1910. It was not used as a training ship for the Peruvian Navy. After the First World War, converted into a freighter, the former Dupuy de Lôme under the Belgian flag suffered an accident on the first voyage and was then scrapped.
Building history
The Dupuy de Lôme was launched in 1890, began testing in October 1891 and was put into service on April 1, 1892. It is considered the first real armored cruiser in the world. The development goes back to Hyacinthe Aube , the naval minister who founded the school of thought of the Jeune École . The ship was designed to secure the overseas colonies of France. The ship had a very pronounced ram , as it was maintained in many navies up to the turn of the century and only finally abandoned after accidents in the Russo-Japanese war . The two 194 mm L / 45 cannons of the 1887 model of the main armament were set up in two symmetrical barbeds between the two funnels. Three turrets for six 163 mm L / 45 cannons were set up at the bow and stern. The Dupuy de Lôme was the first French three-screw ship to sail up to 23 knots.
The Dupuy de Lôme remained a single ship. The four smaller armored cruisers of the Amiral Charner class developed from it were already started during their construction period and were put into service from 1894 to 1896.
After the again larger single ship Pothuan , the very large single ship Jeanne-d'Arc and the larger armored cruisers of the Gueydon class and the ships of the Gloire class, built almost simultaneously, as well as the 1st class cruisers of the Dupleix type followed .
Mission history
The Dupuy de Lôme took part in the opening of the Kiel Canal on June 20, 1895 together with the ironclad Hoche and the protected cruiser 2nd class Surcouf as a representative of France. In 1897 the cruiser moved again to the Baltic Sea to replace the armored cruiser Bruix after an accident in the temporarily existing French Baltic division . From 1898 the Dupuy de Lôme belonged to the French "Escadre du Nord" on the canal . In May 1902 the President of the Republic, Émile Loubet , returned to France from Kronstadt from his visit to Russia.
From 1904 a major overhaul of the ship took place in Brest. From September to November 1909 there was another active use of the cruiser, which was relocated from Lorient to Tangier . On November 9, 1909, the Dupuy de Lôme was assigned to the reserve and deleted from the fleet list on February 1, 1910.
Whereabouts
In 1911 the Dupuy de Lôme was sold to Peru , where it was to be used as a training ship under the name of Commandant Elias Aguirre . The necessary conversion was completed, but Peru temporarily refused to accept the ship. In 1914 a Peruvian crew was in France to transfer the ship, which was not done because of the outbreak of war. However, the French Navy no longer had any tasks for the old cruiser.
In 1918 he was sold to Belgium. The conversion into a cargo ship took place in Bordeaux. Cargo space was created by expanding the side machines. Under the new name Péruvier , it caught fire in Pernambuco on the first voyage with 4000 tons of coal from Cardiff to Brazil in June 1920 . After Antwerp the former was dragged back Dupuy de Lome in 1923 discontinued permanently in the Netherlands.
Other ships named Dupuy de Lôme
- a submarine of the French Navy (1916–1935)
- a reconnaissance ship (A 759) from 2006
literature
- Roger Chesneau, Eugene M. Kolesnik: Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5 .
- Guido Galupini: Encyclopedia of Warships. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-828-7 .
Web links
- Russian-language website about the armored cruiser Dupuy de Lome
- Dupuy de Lome on pages 14-18 (French, accessed May 25, 2011)
- site armored cruiser Dupuy de Lome (French, accessed May 25, 2011)
- Armored cruiser Dupuy de Lome and other French ironclad ships (accessed May 26, 2011)
Notes / individual evidence
- ↑ 194 mm / 45 (7.64 ") Model 1887
- ↑ 164 mm cannon Model 1893
- ↑ Fate of the first Dupuy de Lôme ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French, accessed May 26, 2011)
