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The Alger class comprised three protected cruisers of the French Navy built in the late 1880s and early 1890s; the three ships were Alger, Isly, and Jean Bart. They were ordered as part of a fleet program that accorded with the theories of the Jeune École, which proposed a fleet based on cruisers and torpedo boats to defend France. The Alger-class cruisers were intended to serve a long-range commerce raiders to attack enemy merchant shipping. The ships were armed with a main battery of four 164 mm (6.5 in) guns supported by six 138 mm (5.4 in) guns and they had a top speed of 19 to 19.5 knots (35.2 to 36.1 km/h; 21.9 to 22.4 mph). After entering service, Alger and Isly were assigned to the Northern Squadron, while Jean Bart operated with the Mediterranean Squadron until 1895, when she, too, joined the Northern Squadron. That year, Alger and Isly were sent to French Indochina, and they were followed by Jean Bart followed in 1898. By that time, Alger had returned to France to serve in the Mediterranean. Jean Bart was present in the Far East during the Boxer Uprising in Qing China the following year, by which time Isly had been transferred to the North Atlantic station. Alger embarked on a second tour in East Asia in the mid-1900s, though records of when she left France are unclear. Jean Bart was wrecked off the coast of the Western Sahara in 1907 and could not be refloated. Isly was converted into a depot ship in 1909 and Alger was hulked in 1911; the former was sold to ship breakers in 1914, but Alger remained in the French Navy's inventory until 1939.
References
- Campbell, pp. 308–310.
- Ropp, pp. 158–159, 172.
- Fisher, p. 238.
- Ropp, p. 284.
- Campbell, p. 310.
- The New Cruiser Alger, p. 14669.
- Friedman, p. 223.
- Smigielski, p. 193.
- Brassey 1893, p. 70.
- Barry, pp. 201–208, 213.
- Brassey 1895, p. 50.
- Brassey 1895, p. 54.
- Brassey 1897, p. 62.
- Thursfield, pp. 138–140.
- Garbett 1897, p. 341.
- Brassey 1898, pp. 59–60.
- Naval Notes: France, p. 322.
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- Garbett 1901, p. 611.
- Garbett 1903, p. 86.
- Leyland, pp. 102–106.
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- Naval Notes: France, p. 862.
