Home
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article
needs additional citations for
verification
.
Please help
improve this article
by
adding citations to reliable sources
. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources:
"List of cruisers of France"
–
news
·
newspapers
·
books
·
scholar
·
JSTOR
(
November 2021
)
(
Learn how and when to remove this message
)
French armoured cruiser
Jules Michelet,
carrying the
Governor-General of French Indochina
, mooring in the harbor of
Tanjung Priok
,
Batavia
, April 1929
French Navy
Naval Ensign of France
Command
Naval Ministers
Maritime Prefect
Components
Naval Action Force
Submarine Forces
FOST
ESNA
Naval Aviation
FORFUSCO
Marine Commandos
Naval Fusiliers
Maritime Gendarmerie
Equipment
Current fleet
Current deployments
Personnel
Ranks in the French Navy
History
History of the French Navy
Future of the French Navy
Ensigns and pennants
Historic ships
Battleships
Cruisers
Destroyers
Submarines
Ships of the line
Sail frigates
Historic fleets
Awards
Cross of War
Military Medal
Legion of Honour
Ribbons
v
t
e
Unprotected cruisers
Circé
(1860)
Cosmao
class
Cosmao
(1861)
Dupleix
(1861)
Armorique
(1862)
Talisman
(1862)
Flore
(1869)
Limier
class
Limier
(1866)
Hamelin
(1866)
Volta
(1867)
L'Hermitte
(1867)
D'Estrées
(1867)
Châteaurenault
(1868)
Linois
(1867)
Infernet
class
Infernet
(1871)
Dupetit-Thouars
(1874)
Champlain
(1872)
La Clocheterie
(1872)
Sané
class
Sané
(1869)
Fabert
(1874)
Seignelay
(1874)
Bourayne
class
Bourayne
(1869)
Segond
(1869)
Dayot
(1869)
Ducouëdic
(1869)
Kersaint
(1869)
Vaudreuil
(1870)
Hugon
(1872)
Beautemps-Beaupré
(1872)
Duchaffault
(1872)
Kerguelen
(1872)
Hirondelle
(1869)
Rigault de Genouilly
class
Rigault de Genouilly
(1876)
Éclaireur
(1877)
Painting of
Duquesne
Duquesne
class
Duquesne
(1876) – struck 1901
Tourville
(1876) – struck 1901
Duguay-Trouin
(1877)
Lapérouse
class
Lapérouse
(1877) – wrecked 1898
D'Estaing
(1879)
Nielly
(1880)
Primauguet
(1882)
Villars
class
Villars
(1879)
Forfait
(1879)
Magon
(1880)
Roland
(1882)
Iphigénie
(1881) - struck 1901
Naïade
(1881)
Aréthuse
(1882)
Dubourdieu
(1884)
Milan
(1885)
Torpedo cruisers
Wattignies
in the mid-1890s
Condor
class
Condor
(1885)
Epervier
(1886)
Faucon
(1887)
Vautour
(1889)
Wattignies
class
Wattignies
(1891)
Fleurus
(1893)
D'Iberville
class
D'Iberville
(1892)
Cassini
(1894)
Casabianca
(1895)
Protected cruisers
Sfax
, the first French protected cruiser, early in her career
Main article:
List of protected cruisers of France
Sfax
(1884) – struck 1906
Tage
(1886) – struck 1910
Amiral Cécille
(1888) – scrapped 1919
Davout
(1889) – struck 1910
Suchet
(1893) – struck 1906
Forbin
class
Forbin
(1888) – scrapped 1921
Coëtlogon
(1888) – struck 1906
Surcouf
(1888) – struck 1921
Troude
class
Troude
(1888) – struck 1908
Cosmao
(1889) - struck 1922
Lalande
(1889) - struck 1912
Jean Bart
class
Jean Bart
(1889) – sunk 1907
Isly
(1891) – struck 1914
Alger
(1889) – hulked 1911
Friant
class
Friant
(1893) – struck 1920
Chasseloup-Laubat
(1893)
Bugeaud
(1893) – struck 1907
Linois
class
Linois
(1894) - struck 1910
Galilée
(1896) - struck 1911
Lavoisier
(1897) – struck 1920
Descartes
class
Descartes
(1894) – struck 1920
Pascal
(1895) - struck 1911
D'Assas
class
D'Assas
(1896) - struck 1914
Du Chayla
(1895) - struck 1921
Cassard
(1896) – struck 1924
Catinat
, protected cruiser, 1896-1911
Catinat
class
Catinat
(1896) - struck 1911
Protet
(1898) - struck 1910
D'Entrecasteaux
(1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
Guichen
(1897) – struck 1922
Châteaurenault
(1898) – sunk 1917
D'Estrées
class
D'Estrées
(1897) – struck 1922
Infernet
(1899) – ran aground 1910
Jurien de la Gravière
(1899) – struck 1922
Armoured cruisers
Dupuy de Lôme
(1890)
Amiral Charner
class
Amiral Charner
(1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
Bruix
(1894) – scrapped in 1920
Chanzy
(1894) – wrecked 1907
Latouche-Tréville
(1892) – scrapped 1926
Pothuau
(1895) – scrapped 1929
Jeanne d'Arc
(1899)
– scrapped 1934
Gueydon
class
Gueydon
(1899) – sunk 1944
Montcalm
(1900) – scrapped 1943
Dupetit-Thouars
(1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
Dupleix
class
Dupleix
(1900)
– scrapped 1922
Desaix
(1901) – scrapped 1927
Kléber
(1902) – sunk by mine 1917
Gloire
-class cruiser seen from the
Russian yacht
Standart
, circa 1912-13
Gloire
class
Gloire
(1900)
Marseillaise
(1900)
Sully
(1901) – sunk 1905
Condé
(1902)
Amiral Aube
(1902)
Léon Gambetta
class
Léon Gambetta
(1901) – torpedoed 1915
Jules Ferry
(1903) – struck 1927
Victor Hugo
(1904) – scrapped 1930
Jules Michelet
(1905)
Ernest Renan
(1906) – struck 1931
Waldeck-Rousseau
Edgar Quinet
class
Edgar Quinet
(1907) – struck 1930
Waldeck-Rousseau
(1908) – destroyed 1943
Light cruisers
La Motte-Picquet
class
(1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
Mulhouse
(1920) – struck 1933
Metz
(1920)
Colmar
(1920)
Strasbourg
(1920)
Thionville
(1920)
Duguay-Trouin
class
[1]
Duguay-Trouin
(1923) – scrapped 1952
[2]
La Motte-Picquet
(1924) – sunk 12 January 1945
[2]
Primauguet
(1924)
– burnt out after
Naval Battle of Casablanca
, 8 November 1942.
[3]
Jeanne d'Arc
(1930)
[4]
– scrapped 1966
[5]
Émile Bertin
(1933)
[6]
– struck 1959
[7]
La Galissonnière
class
[8]
La Galissonnière
(1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as
FR 12
, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.
[9]
Jean de Vienne
(1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as
FR 11
, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.
[9]
Marseillaise
(1935)
– scuttled 27 November 1942.
[9]
Gloire
(1935)
– scrapped 1958
[10]
Montcalm
(1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970
[5]
Georges Leygues
(1936) – scrapped 1959
[10]
De Grasse
class
[11]
De Grasse
(1946) – scrapped 1976
[12]
Châteaurenault
- cancelled 1939
[13]
Guichen
- cancelled 1939
[13]
Châteaurenault
(1948) – scrapped 1979
Guichen
(1948) – scrapped 1982
Colbert
(1956) – scrapped 2016
Heavy cruisers
Duquesne
class
Duquesne
(1925) – scrapped 1955
Tourville
(1926) – scrapped 1962
Suffren
class
Suffren
(1927) – scrapped 1974
Colbert
(1928)
– scuttled 1942
Foch
(1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
Dupleix
(1930) – scuttled 1942
Algérie
(1932) – scuttled 1942
Saint-Louis
class
(1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
Saint-Louis
Henri IV
Charlemagne
Brennus
Charles Martel
Vercingetorix
Helicopter cruisers
Jeanne d'Arc
(1961) – decommissioned 2010
Notes and references
^
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 30
^
a
b
Whitley 1999
, p. 27
^
Whitley 1999
, pp. 27, 29
^
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 93
^
a
b
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 224
^
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 99
^
Whitley 1999
, p. 40
^
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 124
^
a
b
c
Whitley 1999
, pp. 43, 45
^
a
b
Whitley 1999
, p. 43
^
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 147
^
Whitley 1999
, p. 47
^
a
b
Jordan & Moulin 2013
, p. 146
Jordan, John; Moulin, Jean (2013).
French Cruisers 1922 – 1956
. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-84832-133-5
.
Whitley, M. J. (1999).
Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia
. London: Brockhampton Press.
ISBN
1-86019-8740
.
v
t
e
Warships of France
Aircraft carriers
Battleships
Cruisers
Destroyers
Escorteurs
Ironclad warships
Protected cruisers
Sail frigates
Ships of the line
Steam frigates
Submarines
v
t
e
Lists of cruisers by nation
Austria-Hungary
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Spain
Russia and the Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
Other
See also:
Cruiser
Categories
:
Lists of ships of France
Lists of cruisers
Cruisers of France
French Navy lists
Hidden categories:
Articles with short description
Short description is different from Wikidata
Articles needing additional references from November 2021
All articles needing additional references