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Renan Class Armored Cruisers, laid down 1904
     Length, 159.0 m x Beam, 21.4 m x Depth, 8.4 m
          14408 tonnes normal displacement (11255 tonnes standard)
     Main battery:       4 x 19.0-cm (2 x 2)
     Secondary battery: 12 x 16.0-cm
     QF battery:        16 x  4.7-cm
     Light battery:      6 x  1.3-cm
          Weight of broadside: 1085 kg
     2 TT, 45.0 cm (submerged)
     Main belt, 20.0 cm; bow and stern, 12.0 cm
     Upper belt, 7.0 cm
     Armor deck, average 5.0 cm
     Conning tower, 20.0 cm
     Battery armor:
          Main, 20.0 cm / secondary, 16.0 cm
          QF, 6.0 cm 
     Maximum speed for 23190 shaft kw = 23.00 knots
          Approximate cruising radius, 6000 nm / 15 knots
     Typical complement: 658-855

                    Estimated cost, $4.251 million (£1.063 million)
          Remarks:
     Ship has slow, easy roll; a good, steady gun platform.
     Good seaboat; rides out heavy weather easily.
     Main deck secondary guns subject to being washed down
     in a seaway.

          Distribution of weights:
                                                       Percent
                                                       normal
                                                    displacement:
          Armament .........................    298 tonnes =   2 pct
          Armor, total .....................   3349 tonnes =  23 pct
               Belt                            1774 tonnes =  12 pct
               Deck                             838 tonnes =   6 pct
               C.T.                             101 tonnes =   1 pct
               Armament                         636 tonnes =   4 pct
          Machinery ........................   3107 tonnes =  22 pct
          Hull and fittings; equipment .....   4013 tonnes =  28 pct
          Fuel, ammunition, stores .........   3640 tonnes =  25 pct
          Miscellaneous weights ............      0 tonnes =   0 pct
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                                              14408 tonnes = 100 pct
          Estimated metacentric height, 1.6 m
     Displacement summary:
          Light ship:             10768 tonnes
          Standard displacement:  11255 tonnes
          Normal service:         14408 tonnes
          Full load:              16873 tonnes
          Loading submergence 2156 tonnes/metre
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     Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
          Relative margin of stability: 1.37
          Shellfire needed to sink: 7428 kg = 78.1 x 19.0-cm shells
               (Approximates weight of penetrating
               shell hits needed to sink ship,
               not counting critical hits)
          Torpedoes needed to sink: 2.0
               (Approximates number of 'typical'
               torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
          Relative steadiness as gun platform, 70 percent
               (50 percent is 'average')
          Relative rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.23
          Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.39
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     Hull form characteristics:
          Block coefficient: 0.50
          Sharpness coefficient: 0.37
          Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 6.56
          'Natural speed' for length = 22.8 knots
          Power going to wave formation
               at top speed: 47 percent

     Estimated hull characteristics and strength:
          Relative underwater volume absorbed by
               magazines and engineering spaces: 88 percent
          Relative accommodation and working space: 103 percent

          Displacement factor: 120 percent
               (Displacement relative to loading factors)

          Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.97
               (Structure weight per square
               metre of hull surface: 538 kg)
          Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.39
               (for 4.70 m average freeboard;
               freeboard adjustment -0.27 m)
          Relative composite hull strength: 1.01
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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
521.52 x 70.19 x 27.55; 15.42 -- Dimensions
0.50 -- Block coefficient
1904 -- Year laid down
23.00 / 6000 / 15.00; Turbine, coal fired -- Speed / radius / cruise
 0 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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4 x 7.48; 2; 0 -- Main battery; turrets; superfiring
   :
12 x 6.30; 0 -- Secondary battery; turrets
  Main deck battery
   :
16 x 1.85 -- Tertiary (QF/AA) battery
   :
6 x 0.51 -- Fourth (light) battery
2 / 2 / 17.72 -- TT / submerged / size
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7.87 / 4.72 / 2.76 / 0.00; 100 -- Belt armor; relative extent
1.97 / 7.87 -- Deck / CT
7.87 / 6.30 / 2.36 / 0.00 -- Battery armor

     (Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)

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