Waldeck-Rousseau

Type:
Armored Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
Arsenal de Lorient
Lorient, France
Hull Number:
N/A
Ordered:
July 31, 1905
Launched:
March 4, 1908
Keel Laid:
June 15, 1906
Completed:
August 8, 1911
Fate:
Removed from navy list June 14, 1936, hulked at Brest.
Scuttled June 18, 1940 at Brest, raised and scrapped 1941-44.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
521' 4"
Engines:
3 vertically inverted triple expansion
Beam:
70' 8"
Boilers:
42 Niclausse (coal fired)
Draft:
27' 6"
Shafts:
3
Displacement:
14,100 std.
SHP:
36,000
Speed:
23 knots
Crew:
892
Range:
6,560 NM @ 10 knots


Main Armament
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
14
7.6"/50 (194mm)
Model 1902
2 twin turrets
10 single mounts
28,390 yards @ 45° (16.1 miles)
with a 197.3 lb. armor piercing shell


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 14, 2007