French cruiser Châteaurenault (1898)

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title: French cruiser Châteaurenault (1898)
text: Châteaurenault was a large protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the late 1890s and early 1900s. She was intended to serve as a long-range commerce raider, designed according to the theories of the Jeune École, which favored a strategy of attacking Britain's extensive merchant shipping network instead of engaging in an expensive naval arms race with the Royal Navy. As such, Châteaurenault was built with a relatively light armament of just eight medium-caliber guns, but was given a long
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description: Protected cruiser of the French Navy
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Ch%C3%A2teaurenault_(1898)
date created: 2010-02-18T21:08:25Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T09:20:19Z
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