French battleship Paris
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| Career France |   |
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| Builder: | La Seyne, France |
| Laid down: | November 10, 1911 |
| Launched: | September 28, 1912 |
| Commissioned: | August 1, 1914 |
| Status: | Scrapped January 1956 |
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| Displacement: | 22,189 tonnes |
| Length: | 166.0 m (544 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 27.9 m (88 ft 7 in) |
| Draught: | 8.80 m (29 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 24 Niclausse boilers, four Parsons steam turbines |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Range: | 1140 Nautical Miles at full speed. 4200 nm at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 1085 to 1100 |
| Armament: | 12 × 305 mm 45-calibre guns 22 × 138.6 mm 55-cal guns Deck: 30 to 50 mm Bridge: 300mm |
The French battleship Paris was a Courbet-class dreadnought battleship of the French Navy. The Courbet class were designed by M. Lyasse. Paris was built as part of the 1910 naval building programme.
Paris was the only of the Courbet class to be built by the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée firm in La Seyne Arsenal. She and her sister ship, France, were sent to St. Petersburg, Russia as part of French President Raymond Poincare's official visit. Both ships were en route home through the Baltic Sea when the First World War broke out in August 1914. At the time, France was not fully armed and had no ammunition aboard. Paris would have had to defend both of them if an enemy ship were sighted, but they managed to escape the German High Seas Fleet.
Along with her three sister ships, Paris served in the Mediterranean Sea during the War against Austro-Hungarian and Turkish Naval forces.
During the Second World War, on June 11, 1940 she was damaged by German bombing at le Havre, France, and was towed to Brest for repairs. Before France surrendered, she sailed to Plymouth, England.
In the wake of the Armistice, she was docked at Portsmouth; on the 3 July 1940, as part of "Operation Catapult", she was forcibly boarded by British forces, along with the destroyers Le Triomphant and the Léopard, her sister-ship Courbet, 8 torpedo boads, 5 submarines and a number of other ships of lesser importance. The British used her as an accommodation ship for Polish Naval personnel.
On August 21, 1945, after the war had ended, she was towed to Brest. She was never used again, and was sold for scrap on December 21, 1955.
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