List of cruisers of France

French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet, carrying the Governor-General of French Indochina, mooring in the harbor of Tanjung Priok, Batavia, April 1929

Unprotected cruisers

• Circé (1860)
• Cosmao class
  • Cosmao (1861)
  • Dupleix (1861)
• Armorique (1862)
• Talisman (1862)
• Flore (1869)
• Limier class
  • Limier (1866)
  • Hamelin (1866)
  • Volta (1867)
  • L'Hermitte (1867)
  • D'Estrées (1867)
• Châteaurenault (1868)
• Linois (1867)
• Infernet class
  • Infernet (1871)
  • Dupetit-Thouars (1874)
  • Champlain (1872)
  • La Clocheterie (1872)
• Sané class
  • Sané (1869)
  • Fabert (1874)
  • Seignelay (1874)
• Bourayne class
  • Bourayne (1869)
  • Segond (1869)
  • Dayot (1869)
  • Ducouëdic (1869)
  • Kersaint (1869)
  • Vaudreuil (1870)
  • Hugon (1872)
  • Beautemps-Beaupré (1872)
  • Duchaffault (1872)
  • Kerguelen (1872)
• Hirondelle (1869)
• Rigault de Genouilly class
  • Rigault de Genouilly (1876)
  • Éclaireur (1877)

Painting of Duquesne

• Duquesne class
  • Duquesne (1876) – struck 1901
  • Tourville (1876) – struck 1901
• Duguay-Trouin (1877)
• Lapérouse class
  • Lapérouse (1877) – wrecked 1898
  • D'Estaing (1879)
  • Nielly (1880)
  • Primauguet (1882)
• Villars class
  • Villars (1879)
  • Forfait (1879)
  • Magon (1880)
  • Roland (1882)
• Iphigénie (1881) - struck 1901
• Naïade (1881)
• Aréthuse (1882)
• Dubourdieu (1884)
• Milan (1885)

Torpedo cruisers

Wattignies in the mid-1890s

• Condor class
  • Condor (1885)
  • Epervier (1886)
  • Faucon (1887)
  • Vautour (1889)
• Wattignies class
  • Wattignies (1891)
  • Fleurus (1893)
• D'Iberville class
  • D'Iberville (1892)
  • Cassini (1894)
  • Casabianca (1895)

Protected cruisers

Sfax, the first French protected cruiser, early in her career

Main article: List of protected cruisers of France

• Sfax (1884) – struck 1906
• Tage (1886) – struck 1910
• Amiral Cécille (1888) – scrapped 1919
• Davout (1889) – struck 1910
• Suchet (1893) – struck 1906
• Forbin class
  • Forbin (1888) – scrapped 1921
  • Coëtlogon (1888) – struck 1906
  • Surcouf (1888) – struck 1921
• Troude class
  • Troude (1888) – struck 1908
  • Cosmao (1889) - struck 1922
  • Lalande (1889) - struck 1912
• Jean Bart class
  • Jean Bart (1889) – sunk 1907
  • Isly (1891) – struck 1914
• Alger (1889) – hulked 1911
• Friant class
  • Friant (1893) – struck 1920
  • Chasseloup-Laubat (1893)
  • Bugeaud (1893) – struck 1907
• Linois class
  • Linois (1894) - struck 1910
  • Galilée (1896) - struck 1911
  • Lavoisier (1897) – struck 1920
• Descartes class
  • Descartes (1894) – struck 1920
  • Pascal (1895) - struck 1911
• D'Assas class
  • D'Assas (1896) - struck 1914
  • Du Chayla (1895) - struck 1921
  • Cassard (1896) – struck 1924

Catinat, protected cruiser, 1896-1911

• Catinat class
  • Catinat (1896) - struck 1911
  • Protet (1898) - struck 1910
• D'Entrecasteaux (1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
• Guichen (1897) – struck 1922
• Châteaurenault (1898) – sunk 1917
• D'Estrées class
  • D'Estrées (1897) – struck 1922
  • Infernet (1899) – ran aground 1910
• Jurien de la Gravière (1899) – struck 1922

Armoured cruisers

• Dupuy de Lôme (1890)
• Amiral Charner class
  • Amiral Charner (1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
  • Bruix (1894) – scrapped in 1920
  • Chanzy (1894) – wrecked 1907
  • Latouche-Tréville (1892) – scrapped 1926
• Pothuau (1895) – scrapped 1929
• Jeanne d'Arc (1899) – scrapped 1934
• Gueydon class
  • Gueydon (1899) – sunk 1944
  • Montcalm (1900) – scrapped 1943
  • Dupetit-Thouars (1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
• Dupleix class
  • Dupleix (1900) – scrapped 1922
  • Desaix (1901) – scrapped 1927
  • Kléber (1902) – sunk by mine 1917

Gloire-class cruiser seen from the Russian yacht Standart, circa 1912-13

• Gloire class
  • Gloire (1900)
  • Marseillaise (1900)
  • Sully (1901) – sunk 1905
  • Condé (1902)
  • Amiral Aube (1902)
• Léon Gambetta class
  • Léon Gambetta (1901) – torpedoed 1915
  • Jules Ferry (1903) – struck 1927
  • Victor Hugo (1904) – scrapped 1930
• Jules Michelet (1905)
• Ernest Renan (1906) – struck 1931

Waldeck-Rousseau

• Edgar Quinet class
  • Edgar Quinet (1907) – struck 1930
  • Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) – destroyed 1943

Light cruisers

• La Motte-Picquet class (1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
• Mulhouse (1920) – struck 1933
• Metz (1920)
• Colmar (1920)
• Strasbourg (1920)
• Thionville (1920)
• Duguay-Trouin class^[1]
  • Duguay-Trouin (1923) – scrapped 1952^[2]
  • La Motte-Picquet (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945^[2]
  • Primauguet (1924) – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.^[3]
• Jeanne d'Arc (1930)^[4] – scrapped 1966^[5]
• Émile Bertin (1933)^[6] – struck 1959^[7]
• La Galissonnière class^[8]
  • La Galissonnière (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.^[9]
  • Jean de Vienne (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.^[9]
  • Marseillaise (1935) – scuttled 27 November 1942.^[9]
  • Gloire (1935) – scrapped 1958^[10]
  • Montcalm (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970^[5]
  • Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959^[10]
• De Grasse class^[11]
  • De Grasse (1946) – scrapped 1976^[12]
  • Châteaurenault - cancelled 1939^[13]
  • Guichen - cancelled 1939^[13]
• Châteaurenault (1948) – scrapped 1979
• Guichen (1948) – scrapped 1982
• Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016

Heavy cruisers

• Duquesne class
  • Duquesne (1925) – scrapped 1955
  • Tourville (1926) – scrapped 1962
• Suffren class
  • Suffren (1927) – scrapped 1974
  • Colbert (1928) – scuttled 1942
  • Foch (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
  • Dupleix (1930) – scuttled 1942
• Algérie (1932) – scuttled 1942
• Saint-Louis class (1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
  • Saint-Louis
  • Henri IV
  • Charlemagne
  • Brennus
  • Charles Martel
  • Vercingetorix

Helicopter cruisers

• Jeanne d'Arc (1961) – decommissioned 2010

Notes and references

1. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 30
2. Whitley 1999, p. 27
3. Whitley 1999, pp. 27, 29
4. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 93
5. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 224
6. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 99
7. Whitley 1999, p. 40
8. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 124
9. Whitley 1999, pp. 43, 45
10. Whitley 1999, p. 43
11. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 147
12. Whitley 1999, p. 47
13. Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 146

• Jordan, John; Moulin, Jean (2013). French Cruisers 1922 – 1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-133-5.
• Whitley, M. J. (1999). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Brockhampton Press. ISBN 1-86019-8740.