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high-angle guns, suppression of the main mast and the reduction of shafts from four to two. These proposals were not adopted and the plans remained dormant. France would not operate any modern light cruisers throughout the rest of the war and her first modern light cruisers would be
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on 13 January 1920 under the 'Project 171' program. Project 171 was a major restructuring plan for the French navy after the huge economic and financial toll left on France after the First World War. The project also called for the building of twelve new
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November 1914. Two more of the class were planned to be built in private shipyards. Shortly after Germany declared war on France on 3 August 1914, all naval construction in France was suspended and the design plans for the
364:. These ships were powerful, heavily armoured but costly, and increasingly obsolete (Britain and Germany having stopped building armoured cruisers several years earlier) compared to newer types of warships such as
449:. The plans were reviewed in July 1915 by the STCN (Service technique des constructions navales), with several suggestions to improve the design. These suggestions were, enlarging the ship, the addition of four
477:. These light cruisers would be the first warships designed and built after the Great War in the world. These revised plans were for six new cruisers were presented by the new French Minister of Marine,
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class would be powered by twelve boilers, of which were eight coal-fired and four partial oil-firing. The projected speed of the cruisers would be 29
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of battleships save for one, which would be converted into the
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primary armament were to be eight 138.6 mm (5.5 in)
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with a straight stem. Another conservative element in the
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682:"138.6 mm/55 (5.46") Model 1910"
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232:17 officers, 340 sailors
155:6,000 t (full load)
1504:Nine, unnamed cancelled
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152:4,500 t (standard)
132:General characteristics
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484:torpilleurs-Ă©claireurs
344:Design and development
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438:Toulon Naval Dockyard
62:Toulon Naval Dockyard
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460:Imperial German Navy
451:65 mm/50 Modèle 1902
405:Ă©claireurs d'escadre
380:issued an ambitious
335:French cruiser
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378:Minister of Marine
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414:and German
392:, 52 fleet
386:battleships
320:World War I
308:French Navy
285:Gun shields
87:Preceded by
81:French Navy
1551:Categories
1348:Amphitrite
1248:Submarines
1230:Aventurier
1146:Pertuisane
1123:Destroyers
871:RĂ©publique
587:guns. The
456:war prizes
398:submarines
229:Complement
189:Propulsion
1445:Cancelled
1306:Archimède
1271:Argonaute
1181:Voltigeur
1167:Branlebas
1153:Arquebuse
1085:D'Estrées
1050:Descartes
816:Normandie
643:Footnotes
616:destroyer
523:bulkheads
489:Normandie
458:from the
424:Magdeburg
417:Karlsruhe
331:lead ship
124:Cancelled
116:Completed
69:Operators
64:(planned)
1383:Lagrange
1334:Clorinde
1313:Mariotte
1299:Brumaire
1292:PluviĂ´se
1278:Émeraude
1264:Aigrette
1195:Bouclier
1188:Chasseur
1160:Claymore
1132:Durandal
905:Henri IV
809:Bretagne
686:NavWeaps
630:See also
561:Bretagne
447:abeyance
410:Arethusa
356:and the
306:for the
237:Armament
194:turbines
58:Builders
1397:O'Byrne
1376:Joessel
1355:Bellone
1071:Guichen
1057:D'Assas
960:Dupleix
953:Gueydon
939:Pothuau
878:Liberté
864:Suffren
802:Courbet
691:25 July
589:torpedo
573:avisoes
555:Courbet
426:classes
260:(4 Ă— 1)
253:(2 Ă— 1)
246:(8 Ă— 1)
198:boilers
181:Draught
108:Planned
1417:Foudre
1390:Armide
1257:Sirène
1202:Bisson
1139:Framée
1043:Linois
1036:Friant
1029:Troude
1022:Forbin
967:Gloire
885:Danton
850:Bouvet
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663:
602:, the
570:-class
563:-class
267:Armour
162:Length
78:
1523:class
1369:Diane
1285:Circé
1237:Arabe
1174:Spahi
624:knots
593:tubes
568:Arras
546:'
544:class
499:BĂ©arn
491:class
419:class
412:class
396:, 94
388:, 10
327:class
300:class
221:Range
214:knots
209:Speed
102:class
53:class
36:class
823:Lyon
740:ISBN
712:ISBN
693:2017
661:ISBN
608:hull
558:and
540:The
535:deck
533:and
505:The
462:and
421:and
295:The
273:Belt
249:2 Ă—
242:8 Ă—
173:Beam
137:Type
90:None
47:Name
1223:M89
600:bow
581:aft
212:29
202:shp
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