 Protet
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Catinat class |
| Builders | |
| Operators |  French Navy |
| Preceded by | D'Assas class |
| Succeeded by | D'Entrecasteaux |
| Built | 1894–1899 |
| In service | 1898–1911 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,113.65 t (4,048.68 long tons; 4,534.52 short tons)[a] |
| Length | 101.56 m (333 ft 2 in) loa |
| Beam | 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 399 |
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The Catinat class comprised two protected cruisers of the French Navy built in the early 1890s; the two ships were Catinat and Protet. They were ordered as part of a naval construction program directed at France's rivals, Italy and Germany, particularly after Italy made progress in modernizing its own fleet. The plan was also intended to remedy a deficiency in cruisers that had been revealed during training exercises in the 1880s. As such, the Catinat-class cruisers were intended to operate as fleet scouts and in the French colonial empire. The ships were armed with a main battery of four 164 mm (6.5 in) guns supported by ten 100 mm (3.9 in) guns and they had a top speed of 19.5 to 20 knots (36.1 to 37.0 km/h; 22.4 to 23.0 mph).
Catinat served briefly with the Northern Squadron in 1898 and 1899 before being placed in reserve; thereafter, she and Protet served the entirety of their active careers abroad. Protet was sent to the Pacific in 1899 after being completed, and she remained there through 1905 to protect French interests. Catinat was sent on a brief stint to French Madagascar in 1901 through at least 1902, before returning to France at some point before 1905. Early that year, she was sent to the Pacific to replace her sister ship, remaining there through at least 1908. No records of her activities thereafter survive. That year, Protet was converted into a training ship for the Gunnery School, though she was sold for scrap in 1910. Catinat was discarded the following year.
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