French Navy armoured cruiser of the Dupleix-class, FR Kléber.Built – F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux…

French Navy armoured cruiser of the Dupleix-class, FR Kléber.Built – F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux – 1903Sunk by mine – 27 June 1917This image was produced from a series of original negatives used to promote the French Fleet of that era. Most of the negatives in this collection received retouching modifications for contemporary postcard or offset printing processes. The retouching was carried out to facilitate or improve the negatives tonal range for the printing process. Some enhancements such as fake clouds, waves, smoke and highlights might still be seen in this reproduction from those negatives.

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