Marine Nationale — Battleship class
Richelieu-class battleship
Richelieu class
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1935–1955
- Preceded by
- Dunkerque-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Alsace-class battleship (planned)
- Operators
- Free French Navy
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët
- Subclasses
- Gascogne
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Designed configuration
- Displacement, standard
- 37,250 long tons (37,848 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 43,992 long tons (44,698 t)
- Length
- 247.85 m (813.2 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 1,569
- Main gun
- 381 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 380 mm (15 in) guns
- 9 × 152 mm guns
- 12 × 100 mm AA guns
- 8 × 37 mm AA guns
- 24 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Richelieu 1943 refit
- Displacement, standard
- 43,263 long tons (43,957 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 46,974 long tons (47,728 t)
- Complement
- 1,930
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 380 mm guns
- 9 × 152 mm guns
- 12 × 100 mm AA guns
- 56 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns
- 48 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA autocannons
Jean Bart as completed
- Displacement, standard
- 42,372 long tons (43,052 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 48,419 long tons (49,196 t)
- Complement
- 2,220
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 380 mm guns
- 9 × 152 mm guns
- 12 × 100 mm AA guns
- 28 × 57 mm AA guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French battleship Jean Bart (1940) | 1940 | 1949 | Scrapped 1970 |
| French battleship Richelieu | 1940 | Scrapped 1968 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Richelieu-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.