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Sunday, 15 May 2016

French light cruiser (ex-Novara) Thionville in 1923

Launched in 1913, completed in 1914, displacement 3.444 tons, horsepower 25.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine, all geared machinery and armament of 9-3.9” guns, 1 machineguns and 10 torpedo tubes.(1)

Note
1. Former Austrian light cruiser SMS Novara, an improved SMS Admiral Spaun-design, laid down in 1912m launched in 1913, handed over to France and finally decommissioned and broken up in 1942.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at The Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.