Английская Википедия:French cruiser Dupetit-Thouars

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Dupetit-Thouars was a Шаблон:Sclass armoured cruiser of the French Navy. She was torpedoed and sunk on 7 August 1918 by Шаблон:SMU with the loss of 13 of her crew.

Design and description

Designed by the naval architect Emile Bertin, the Gueydon-class ships were intended to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École. They measured Шаблон:Convert long overall with a beam of Шаблон:Convert and had a draught of Шаблон:Convert. Dupetit-Thouars displaced Шаблон:Convert. The ship had a crew of 566 officers and enlisted men.

The Gueydon class had three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for Dupetit-ThouarsШаблон:'s engines was provided by 28 Belleville boilers and they were rated at a total of Шаблон:Convert that gave them a speed of Шаблон:Convert. The ships enough coal to steam for Шаблон:Convert at a speed of Шаблон:Convert.

The Gueydons had a main armament that consisted of two 40-caliber [[Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1893-1896|Шаблон:Convert]] guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their secondary armament comprised eight 45-caliber quick-firing (QF) [[Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893|Canon de Шаблон:Convert Modèle 1893]] guns in casemates. For anti-torpedo boat defense, they carried four 45-caliber QF [[Canon de 100 mm Modèle 1891|Canon de Шаблон:Convert Modèle 1891]] guns on the forecastle deck, as well as ten QF [[QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss|Шаблон:Convert]] and four QF Шаблон:Convert Hotchkiss guns. They were also armed with two submerged Шаблон:Convert torpedo tubes.

The Harvey armor belt of the Gueydon-class cruisers covered most of the ships' hull. The lower strake of armor was generally Шаблон:Convert thick, although it reduced to Шаблон:Convert forward, Шаблон:Convert aft. The curved lower protective deck ranged in thickness from Шаблон:Convert. The gun turrets were protected by Шаблон:Convert armor and had roofs Шаблон:Convert thick.

Construction and career

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Sailor hat of Dupetit-Thouars

Dupetit-Thouars took part in the First World War.

In 1918, she was part of the Atlantic Naval Division, under Commander Paqué, and tasked with escort duty. On 7 August 1918, escorting a 24-ship convoy inbound from New York, she was torpedoed by the submarine Шаблон:Ship, off Brest. At nightfall, at 20:51, a torpedo hit the port side underneath the forward bridge, followed ten seconds after by another under the aft bridge. The explosions killed three men, and neither the submarine nor her periscope were spotted, although a Lieutenant detected the first torpedo shortly before it hit.

Assessment of the ship soon revealed extensive damage, but as the list was moderate, the officers deemed that although the ship was lost, she would not sink rapidly. They moved the ship off the route of the convoy, radioed a distress call, and stopped the engines to allow the crew to evacuate. The list then started to increase while the crew abandoned ship. Fifty minutes after the torpedo hit, Dupetit-Thouars rolled over and sank, killing ten sailors still aboard trying to launch the last raft. Following the sinking, U-62 surfaced to inquire as to the name and tonnage of the cruiser, and collect a ribbon from a sailor's hat.

The survivors spent 16 hours in boats and rafts before being rescued the next day, in late afternoon, by six US destroyers Шаблон:USS, Шаблон:USS, Шаблон:USS, Шаблон:USS, Шаблон:USS and Шаблон:USS.

Dupetit-Thouars was mentioned in dispatches at the Army level on 25 October 1919, the mention stating

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