The Lavoisier was a protected cruiser of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

, named in honour of Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the "father of modern chemistry", was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology...

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Launched in Rochefort in April 1896, Lavoisier entered the service in December 1897. She was then sent to Toulon as a replacement for the ageing Cosmao.

In 1903, she replaced the Isly as division chief at the station of Newfoundland.

During the First World War, Lavoisier patrolled the Atlantic and the English Channel, before being sent in Eastern Mediterranean in 1915.

In 1919, she was appointed to the station of Syria.

She was struck in 1920, and sold for scrap the next year.

Sources and references

• Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870-2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005