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Edgar Quinet Cira 1910-1915:
Design:
Length: 158.9m
Beam: 21.5m
Draught: 8.41m
Displacement: 13,847t
Speed: 23kts
Belt Armor: 150mm
Turret Armor: 200mm
Casemate Armor: 190mm
Lower Deck Armor: 45-65mm
Main Deck Armor: 35mm
Main Armament: 2x2 194/50 M1902 and 10x1 194/50 M1902 (194mm)
Secondary Armament: 20x1 65/50 M1902 (65mm)
Tertiary Armament: 2x450mm torpedo tubes
History:
Construction-
Edgar Quinet was ordered in 1904 and was laid down in 1905. She was launched on September 12st, 1907, and commissioned in January of 1911. She was named after French historian Edgar Quinet (1803-1875).
Edgar Quinet being launched in 1907:
World War 1-
At the outbreak of war all armored cruisers of the 1st Light Division were assigned to hunt down the German ships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean. After these two German ships escaped to Ottoman ports in Constantinople, Edgar Quinet was transferred to the Austro-Hungarian coast. Here she would participate in blockading the Adratic Sea until the end of 1914. On January 8th, Edgar Quinet with the rest of the 1st Light Division carried French mountaineers to occupy the Geek Island of Corfu. For the remainder of the war, she was only used for security purposes.
Post War-
After the war Edgar Quinet remained in the Mediterranean to observe the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Greek-Turkish War. She took part in saving survivors of the great fire of Smyrna in 1922. Around the mid 1920s she was converted to a training ship. Once again, the ship was upgraded to hold seaplanes in 1929. However, during a training trip on January 4th, 1930, she ran aground off the coast of Algeria. She sank five days later and was eventually broken up and sold for scrap from 1941-1944.
References:
Design - Edgar Quinet armoured cruisers (1911) - French Navy (France)
History- Armored cruiser Edgar Quinet - Militär Wissen
Edgar Quinet-class cruiser explained
Pictures- Edgar Quinet [ship] | Library of Congress
French cruiser Edgar Quinet - Wikipedia