R.noël 1902 "the Armored Cruiser Montcalm" Of The Gueydon Class In 1902 Oil On Canvas

The Armored Cruiser "Montcalm" in 1902 Signed lower right in red "R.noël Mai 1902". R.Noël, painter specialized in the representations of buildings, military and civilian, of naval battles. Dimensions of the frame: 81.5 x 54 cmCanvas in good general condition (cracking) to be cleaned.History: The Montcalm is an armored cruiser of the French Navy of Gueydon class. It bears the name of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712-1759). It was launched from the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in La Seyne-sur-Mer. The Montcalm made its maiden voyage to convey the President of the French Republic Émile Loubet to Russia, to Kronstadt, to receive on board Tsar Nicholas II for lunch on May 23, 1902. In 1906, it lost a propeller in the Mediterranean; repaired in Bizerte, it returned to Brest. Then it returned to the Far East campaign. At the outbreak of the First World War, it was the flagship of the French Far Eastern Fleet. It participated in the seizure of German Samoa by New Zealand on August 29, 1914 and carried out artillery fire on September 23 against Friedrich Wilhelmshafen during the seizure of German New Guinea[1]. On February 17, 1915, at the request of the British, it participated in Singapore in the suppression of a rebellion by half of the companies of the 5th Light Infantry Regiment of the Army of India won over by the anti-British nationalist propaganda of the Ghadar (Rebellion) party. In 1921, it left again for Singapore. It escorted Marshal Joseph Joffre for four months during his visit to Asia. It was decommissioned on October 28, 1926 to become a training ship for the Armorique Group and took the name Trémintin in 1934. At the start of the Second World War, it was based in Brest and scuttled on June 18, 1940, the day before German troops entered the city, before being finally destroyed in 1943.