Marine Nationale — Battleship class
Courbet-class battleship
Courbet class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 3 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1910–1914
- Preceded by
- Danton-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Bretagne-class battleship
- Operators
- Free French Navy
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Arsenal de Lorient
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire
- Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 23,104 long tons (23,475 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 25,175 long tons (25,579 t)
- Length
- 166 m (544.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 1,115
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- 6 × twin 305 mm guns
- 22 × single 138 mm guns
- 4 × single 47 mm guns
- 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 2 of the 4 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French battleship Courbet | 1913 | Scuttled 1944 | |
| French battleship Paris | 1914 | Scrapped 1956 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Courbet-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.