 Catinat
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Catinat |
| Ordered | 14 February 1894 |
| Builder | Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée |
| Laid down | February 1894 |
| Launched | 8 October 1896 |
| Commissioned | 12 May 1897 |
| Decommissioned | 16 February 1910 |
| Stricken | 3 August 1910 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Catinat-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,113.65 t (4,048.68 long tons; 4,534.52 short tons) |
| 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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Catinat was the lead ship of the Catinat class of protected cruisers built for the French Navy in the 1890s. The Catinat-class cruisers were ordered as part of a construction program directed at strengthening the fleet's cruiser force at a time the country was concerned with the growing naval threat of the Italian and German fleets. The new cruisers were intended to serve with the main fleet and overseas in the French colonial empire. Catinat was armed with a main battery of four 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, was protected by an armor deck that was 25 to 60 mm (0.98 to 2.36 in) thick, and was capable of steaming at a top speed of up to 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).
Completed in 1898, Catinat initially served with the Northern Squadron, where she conducted training exercises with the rest of the unit. She served in the unit for less than a year before being reduced to the reserve fleet. She was assigned to the Indian Ocean by 1901, remaining there for the next several years. By 1906, she had been transferred to France's colonies in the Pacific. Her career overseas was uneventful, and by 1911, she was struck off the naval register and thereafter sold for scrap.