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| Name: | Desaix |
| Laid down: | November 1897 |
| Launched: | March 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Dupleix-class armoured cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,700 tonnes (7,578 long tons) |
| Length: | 130 m (426 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: | 17.87 m (58 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 531 |
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The French cruiser Desaix was one of three Dupleix-class armoured cruisers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.