 Protet
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| History | |
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| Name | Protet |
| Ordered | 14 August 1895 |
| Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde |
| Laid down | 5 November 1895 |
| Launched | 6 July 1898 |
| Commissioned | 6 August 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 1 March 1909 |
| Stricken | 9 March 1910 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1910 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Catinat-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 4,183.55 t (4,117.48 long tons; 4,611.57 short tons) |
| Length | 101.52 m (333 ft 1 in) loa |
| Beam | 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 6.07 m (19 ft 11 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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Protet was a protected cruiser of the French Navy built in the 1890s, the second and final member of the Catinat class. The Catinat-class cruisers were ordered as part of a construction program directed at strengthening the fleet's cruiser force at a time when 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. Protet 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).
After entering service in 1899, Protet was sent to the Pacific Ocean for a lengthy deployment; she was to spend the majority of her active career in the region. While there, she helped suppress a fire in the United States in 1900 and protected French interests in Colombia during a conflict in the country in 1901. The ship was eventually recalled to France in 1905. She was later assigned to the Gunnery School as a training ship in 1908 before being struck from the naval register in 1910 and thereafter broken up.