French cruiser Montcalm (1900)

The Montcalm was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.

Built in at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in La-Seyne-sur-Mer from 27 September 1898, she was launched on 27 March 1900 and was commissioned on 24 March 1902, before completing her trials, to ferry the President of the Republic, Émile Loubet, to Russia. She arrived in Kronstadt on 20 May 1902, receiving Tsar Nicholas II for lunch aboard on the 23rd. After the outbreak of WWI, Montcalm took part in the Australian capture of Rabaul in September 1914.

She later cruised in the China Seas, notably ferrying Marshal Joseph Joffre in November 1921.

She was decommissioned on the 28 October 1926 and used as a school ship hulk, Tremintin, in 1934. She was still at Brest in 1940 and was bombed and sunk by the RAF on 16 August 1944; the wreck was broken up in 1946/7.