Gueydon class cruiser
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The Gueydon class was a class of armoured 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...

 which were commissioned in 1902.

Description and History

Dupetit-Thouars was torpedoed and sunk in 1918. Gueydon was decommissioned in 1935 and used as accommodation at Brest, and was finally scrapped in 1942. Montcalm
French armoured cruiser Montcalm
The Montcalm was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.Before even completing her trials, she ferried the President of the Republic, Émile Loubet, to Russia...

was decommissioned in 1926 and used as accommodation, renamed Tremintin in 1934, and was finally scrapped in 1943.


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