French battleship Jean Bart (1940)
Service
- as Jean Bart8 January 1949 — 10 February 1970
- Name
- Jean Bart
- Pennant / hull number
- 1940
- Namesake
- Jean Bart
- Laid down
- 12 December 1936
- Launched
- 6 March 1940
- Commissioned
- 8 January 1949
- Struck
- 10 February 1970
- Fate
- Broken up, 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — 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)
- Beam
- 33.08 m (108.5 ft)
- Draught
- 9.9 m (32.5 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 9,500 nmi (17,594 km)
- Complement
- 1,569
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
Jean Bart was a Richelieu-class battleship built for the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1940. The ship was named after Jean Bart. Her keel was laid on 12 December 1936. Launched on 6 March 1940, she entered service on 8 January 1949.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Dunkerque-class battleship and was succeeded by the Alsace-class battleship.
She displaced 37,250 long tons standard and 43,992 long tons at full load. She measured 247.8 m (813 ft) long with a beam of 33.1 m (109 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,569.
Her main battery was eight 380 mm (15.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 330 mm (13.0 in) and her deck 170 mm. She carried four aircraft. Her machinery developed 155,000 shp.
She was struck from the register on 10 February 1970.
She was broken up for scrap in 1970.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
Designed configuration
- Propulsion
- 4 × Parsons geared turbines
- 4 × screws
- Power
- 6 × Indret Sural boilers
- 155000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × 380 mm (15-inch)/45 Modèle 1935 guns
- 9 × 152 mm/50 guns
- 12 × 100 mm anti-aircraft (AA) guns
- 8 × 37 mm AA guns
- 20 × 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine guns
- Armour
- Belt: 330 mm
- Main deck: 170 mm
- Turrets: 430 mm
- Conning tower: 340 mm
- Aircraft
- 4 × Loire 130 seaplanes
As completed
- Displacement, standard
- 42,372 long tons (43,052 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 48,419 long tons (49,196 t)
- Draught
- 10.9 m (35.8 ft)
- Complement
- 2,220
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 380 mm guns
- 9 × 152 mm guns
- 24 × 100 mm AA guns
- 28 × 57 mm AA guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French battleship Jean Bart (1940) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown US Navy pilot (US Navy official photograph) — 80-G-32402: Naval Battle of Casablanca, November 1942 . history.navy.mil . Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved on 30 July 2019 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons