French battleship Courbet
Service
- as Courbet19 November 1913 — 9 June 19441,743 days of the war
- Name
- Courbet
- Namesake
- Admiral Amédée Courbet
- Builder
- Arsenal de Lorient
- Ordered
- 11 August 1910
- Laid down
- 1 September 1910
- Launched
- 23 September 1911
- Commissioned
- 19 November 1913
- Fate
- Scuttled, 9 June 1944, during Operation Neptune (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 23,104 long tons (23,475 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 25,175 long tons (25,579 t)
- Length
- 166 m (544.6 ft) OA
- Beam
- 27 m (88.6 ft)
- Draught
- 9.04 m (29.7 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,115
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
Courbet was a Courbet-class battleship of the Marine Nationale. The ship was named after Admiral Amédée Courbet. Her keel was laid at Arsenal de Lorient on 1 September 1910. She entered service on 19 November 1913, having been launched on 23 September 1911.
She was one of two ships of her class. The class followed the Danton-class battleship and was succeeded by the Bretagne-class battleship.
Displacement was 23,104 long tons standard and 25,175 long tons at full load. She measured 166 m (545 ft) long with a beam of 27 m (89 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,115.
Her main battery was twelve 305 mm (12.0 in) guns in six twin mountings.
She was in commission for 1,743 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 9 June 1944. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts; 2 × steam turbine sets
- Power
- 28000 PS
- 24 × Niclausse boilers
- Armament
- 6 × twin 305 mm guns
- 22 × single 138 mm guns
- 4 × single 47 mm guns
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 140 - 250 mm
- Deck: 40 - 70 mm
- Turrets: 250 - 360 mm
- Conning tower: 266 mm
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French battleship Courbet on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: E. Hopkins This photograph Q 22265 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums . — http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205262789 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons