French cruiser Ernest Renan
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Ernest Renan was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she participated in the hunt for the German battle
Ernest Renan at anchor
Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1923
Ernest Renan steaming at high speed
Battle of Antivari
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The Battle of Antivari or Action off Antivari was a naval engagement between a large fleet of French and British warships and two ships of the Austro-Hungarian navy at the start of the First World War
French cruiser Ernest Renan
…in the hunt for the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and then joined the blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic. She took part in the Battle of Antivari later in August, and the seizure of Corfu in January 1916, but saw no further action during the war. After the war, the British and French intervened…
Painting showing SMS Zenta and SMS Ulan in the Battle of Antivari