Even Lord Brassey in his Naval Annual 1890 stated that the Royal Navy should build cruisers like the Jean Bart. The Jean Bart was one of these three, designed to sendīritish merchantmen screaming into safe ports with a severe case of the willies.
École immediately suspended construction of four battleships and initiated construction of swarms of torpedo boats and his beloved fast commerce destroying protected cruisers of the Alger Class.
Jean Bart 1891, French Jeune École Protected Cruiser, Combrig 1:700 Scale, Review by Steve Backer - When Vice Admiral Théophile Aube became Minister of Marine, this pariah of the French naval establishment and fire-breathing leader of the Jeune
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