Marine Nationale — Battleship class
Bretagne-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1912–1916
- In commission
- 1916–1953
- Preceded by
- Courbet-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Normandie-class battleship (planned)
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Arsenal de Lorient
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 23,558 long tons (23,936 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 25,589 long tons (26,000 t)
- Length
- 166 m (544.6 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Main gun
- 340 mm (13.4 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 340mm/45 Modèle 1912 guns
- After 1935 (Lorraine only)
- 8 × 340 mm/45 Modèle 1912 guns
- 22 × 1 138.6 mm Mle 1910 guns
- 4 × 47 mm guns
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
- After 1935:
- 14 × 1 138.6 mm Mle 1910 guns
- 8 × 75mm/50 Modèle 1922 guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French battleship Bretagne | 1916 | Sunk 1940 | |
| French battleship Lorraine | 1916 | Scrapped 1954 | |
| French battleship Provence | 1916 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bretagne-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.