French armoured cruiser Pothuau
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Pothuau was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
, named after French admiral and politician Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau (1815–1882).
Service history
In August 1914, at the beginning of World War IWorld War I
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, Pothuau was serving in the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
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with 1st Armée Navale, and was stationed off West Africa in 1915. The ship was sent to Egypt in 1916 before being given a refit. Pothuau became a gunnery training ship until she was eventually replaced in this role by . Pothuau was decommissioned in November 1927, and broken up from 25 September 1929.