French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet bound for Peru according to the Weekly Intelligence Summary (W.I.S.) No. 10 dated 12 March 1921

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An item reported that the French cruiser Jules-Michelet was ordered to represent the French navy at the Peruvian centenary celebrations at Callao in coming June. She was to go via the Panama Canal and to return via Cape Horn.(1)

Note

1. Laid down at Lorient, France as an armoured cruiser in June 1904, launched in August 1908, commissioned in November 1908 and finally sunk as target ship by the submarine Thetis in 1937. Modified Léon Gambetta-class design, succeeded by Ernest Renan.

Source

The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-121-2