Louis René Charles Marie Dartige du Fournet was a French vice admiral during World War I.
Dartige du Fournet in 1910
Louis Dartige du Fournet in 1915.
A French warship embarks Armenian refugees from Musa Dagh in September 1915.
Dartige du Fournet in Piraeus, Greece, 26 November 1916.
French cruiser D'Entrecasteaux
D'Entrecasteaux was a large protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s. The only vessel of her class, D'Entrecasteaux was intended to serve as a flagship of the cruiser squadron that defended French Indochina and other possessions in the Far East. Her construction came during a period of conflict in the French naval command between factions that favored different cruiser types; D'Entrecasteaux represented the ideas of the Jeune École, who favored large cruisers for long-range operations overseas. She was armed with a main battery of two 240 mm (9.4 in) guns, the largest guns ever carried aboard a French cruiser, though their great weight, coupled with her pronounced ram bow degraded her seaworthiness. She nevertheless provided the basis for later armored cruisers.
Sketch of D'Entrecasteaux, c. 1899
The armored cruiser Pothuau, which preceded D'Entrecasteaux
Model of D'Entrecasteaux
D'Entrecasteaux underway during sea trials in 1898