Drawing by Ron van Maanen
An item referred to the magazine
Engineering reporting that the French minister of navy ordered the building of 2 cruisers 1st class. They were to be built at Brest and Rochefort of steel and fitted out with barbette turrets, With a measurement of 4.160 tons were the dimensions to be 353’ x 43’ x 18’ (hold). The armament consisted of 4-16cm guns, 6-14cm guns, 10 revolver guns and 4 torpedo tubes for fish torpedoes. Design speed 19 miles. The cruisers were to be named Dupuy-de-Lôme and Jean-Bart.
