List of cruisers of France

French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet, carrying the Governor-General of French Indochina, mooring in the harbor of Tanjung Priok, Batavia, April 1929
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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

A large black ship with three masts and sail rigging sits in a harbor with several small boats alongside.
Sfax, the first French protected cruiser, early in her career
  • 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

  1. ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 30
  2. ^ a b Whitley 1999, p. 27
  3. ^ Whitley 1999, pp. 27, 29
  4. ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 93
  5. ^ a b Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 224
  6. ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 99
  7. ^ Whitley 1999, p. 40
  8. ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 124
  9. ^ a b c Whitley 1999, pp. 43, 45
  10. ^ a b Whitley 1999, p. 43
  11. ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 147
  12. ^ Whitley 1999, p. 47
  13. ^ 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.