 Tage after her 1892–1893 refit
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Sfax |
| Succeeded by | Amiral Cécille |
| History | |
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| Name | Tage |
| Ordered | 1885 |
| Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire |
| Laid down | August 1885 |
| Launched | 28 October 1886 |
| Commissioned | 1 March 1889 |
| Stricken | 7 June 1907 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1910 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement | 7,469 long tons (7,589 t) |
| Length | 118.87 m (390 ft) loa |
| Beam | 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 19.2 knots (35.6 km/h; 22.1 mph) |
| Complement | 538 |
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Tage was a protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1880s, the second vessel of that type built for the French fleet. The design was based on the previous cruiser, Sfax, and like that vessel, Tage was intended to be used as a commerce raider to attack merchant shipping. As such, she carried a barque sailing rig to supplement her steam engines for long voyages overseas. Tage was armed with a main battery of eight 164 mm (6.5 in) guns and had a curved armor deck that was 51 to 56 mm (2 to 2.2 in) thick.
Tage spent the 1890s operating in the Mediterranean Sea, either as part of the active Mediterranean Squadron or in the Reserve Squadron, which was typically activated for annual training exercises with the rest of the fleet. The ship was modernized in 1900, which included the installation of new boilers, removal of her sailing rig, and other alterations. She operated with the Newfoundland and Iceland Naval Division and later the Atlantic Squadron in the early 1900s. Tage was ultimately struck from the naval register in 1910 and then broken up for scrap.