Cassard was a D'Assas-class protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s. The D'Assas-class cruisers were ordered as part of a construction...

Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Cassard in honour of Jacques Cassard: Cassard (1795–1806), a Téméraire-class ship of the line renamed...

D'Assas class D'Assas (1896) - struck 1914 Du Chayla (1895) - struck 1921 Cassard (1896) – struck 1924 Catinat class Catinat (1896) - struck 1911 Protet...

class comprised three protected cruisers of the French Navy built in the early 1890s; the ships were D'Assas, Cassard, and Du Chayla. They were ordered...

The French destroyer Cassard was one of six Vauquelin-class destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1930s. The ship entered...

One of the cruisers, Jean de Vienne, was in drydock, helpless. After the Germans required the remnants of the French Army to disband, French sailors had...

several pre-dreadnought battleships and the protected cruisers Du Chayla, Lavoisier, and Cassard for maneuvers off Golfe-Juan on the Côte d'Azur, including...

first armoured cruiser. The French Navy consists of six main components: the Naval Action Force, the Submarine Forces (FOST and ESNA), French Naval Aviation...

Cassard was a steam corvette of the French Navy. Built as an aviso, she served as the imperial yacht Reine Hortense from 1853. Laid down as Comte d'Eu...

Galissonnière was the lead ship of her class of six light cruisers built for the Marine Nationale (French Navy) during the 1930s. She was named in honour of...

seventy cruisers for use in home waters and overseas in the French colonial empire. The D'Assas class, which also included Du Chayla and Cassard, was ordered...

forced to become a French protectorate in 1912. Victorian joined the French cruiser Cassard off Cape Juby on 26 September, the two cruisers bombarded Moroccan...

France of a way to interdict enemy commerce in wartime. The other was the introduction of a new generation of steam-powered frigates, such as Cassard...

including the cruisers Foch, Algérie, Dupleix and Colbert, bombarded Genoa, supported by French Naval Aviation. In 1940, after the fall of France, the Royal...

sailed with Dupleix, the British cruiser Neptune, the British carrier Hermes and two contre torpilleurs, Milan and Cassard. The ships were informed of the...

the armored cruisers were transferred elsewhere. By March 1915, the Morocco Division consisted of Friant, Cassard, and Cosmao. After French and British...

Marseillaise was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class. During the Second World War, she remained with Vichy France. The La Galissonnière...

Free French. A French reconnaissance aircraft detected the fleet at 07:00 that morning, and to oppose the landing, the French had one light cruiser, nine...

Governor-General of French India, a post he held until his death in 1763. With the Italians building the Condottieri class light cruiser to counter the large...

Lavoisier joined several pre-dreadnought battleships and the cruisers Du Chayla, Cassard, and Galilée for maneuvers off Golfe-Juan on the Côte d'Azur...

cruisers became the new focus for French naval architects in 1929. The design had to respect the 1930 London Naval Treaty, which limited the French to...

monopulse. T 47-class destroyer (Du Chayla subclass post AAW modernization) Cassard-class frigate Lutjens-class destroyer Audace-class destroyer Durand de...

Primauguet was a French Duguay-Trouin-class light cruiser built after World War I. During the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in 1942, she...

built for the French Navy in the 1930s. She and her sister ship Dunkerque were designed to defeat the German Deutschland class of heavy cruisers that had been...

class (Surcouf class) Surcouf (D621) 1955–1972 Kersaint (D622) 1956–1984 Cassard (D623) 1956–1974 Bouvet (D624) 1956–1982 Dupetit-Thouars (D625) 1957–1988...

seventy cruisers for use in home waters and overseas in the French colonial empire. The D'Assas class, which also included D'Assas and Cassard, was ordered...

were modified as replacements for two light cruisers which had been withdrawn from service. In 1962, Cassard was used for helicopter experiments and fitted...

as the fleet escorts of the French Navy Kersaint, Bouvet, Du Chayla and Dupetit-Thouars, and was also in use on Cassard and Jean Bart. Starting in the...

Armored Cruisers 1890–1933. Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-47285-1-000. Jordan, John; Caresse, Philippe (2019). French Armoured Cruisers 1887–1932...

the 1880s and 1890s, the French Navy built a series of protected cruisers, thirty-three vessels in total. Protected cruisers were differentiated from...