List of battleships of France

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This is a list of French battleships of the period 1859-1944:
For ships of the 1399-1858 period see this page. Date is launch date.

Ironclads built for the Crimean War

  • Congreve (1855) - Stricken 1867
  • Dévastation (1855) - Stricken 1871
  • Foudroyante (1855) - Stricken 1871
  • Lave (1855) - Stricken 1871
  • Tonnante (1855) - Stricken 1871

Early ironclad battleships

  • Gloire class
    • Gloire (1859) - World's first ocean-going ironclad. Stricken 1879
    • Invincible (1861) - Stricken 1872
    • Normandie (1860) - Stricken 1871
  • Couronne (1861)
  • Magenta class
    • Magenta (1861) - Sank after explosion 1875
    • Solferino (1861) - Stricken 1882
  • Provence class
    • Provence (1863)
    • Savoie (1863) - Stricken 1888
    • Héroïne (1863)
    • Flandre (1864) - Stricken 1886
    • Magnanime (1864) - Stricken 1882
    • Surveillante (1864) - Stricken 1890
    • Valeureuse (1864) - Stricken 1886
    • Gauloise (1865) - Stricken 1883
    • Guyenne (1865) - Stricken 1882
    • Revanche (1865) - BU 1893
  • Océan class
    • Océan (1868) - Stricken 1894
    • Marengo (1869) - Sold 1896
    • Suffren (1870) - Stricken 1897
  • Friedland (1873) - Stricken 1902
  • Richelieu (1873) - Sold 1901, sank
  • Colbert class
    • Colbert (1875) - Stricken 1900
    • Trident (1876)
  • Courbet class
    • Courbet (1882) - Stricken 1910
    • Dévastation (1879) - BU 1922

Early steel battleships

  • Redoutable (1876) - First warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material. Stricken 1910

Pre-Dreadnoughts

Liberté
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Liberté
  • Amiral Duperré (1879) - Stricken 1909
  • Terrible class
    • Terrible (1881) - Stricken 1911
    • Indomptable (1883) - BU 1927
    • Caïman (1885) - BU 1927
    • Requin (1885) - Stricken 1920
  • Amiral Baudin class
    • Amiral Baudin (1883)
    • Formidable (1885) - Stricken 1911
  • Hoche (1886) - Scuttled 1913
  • Magenta class
    • Marceau (1887) - BU 1922
    • Magenta (1890) - Stricken 1910
    • Neptune (1887) - Stricken 1913
  • Brennus (1891) - BU 1922
  • Charles Martel (1893) - Stricken 1922
  • Carnot (1894) - Stricken 1922
  • Jauréguiberry (1893) - BU 1934
  • Masséna (1895) - Scuttled 1915
  • Bouvet (1896) - Mined 1915
  • Charlemagne class
    • Charlemagne (1895) - Stricken 1920
    • St Louis (1896) - BU 1933
    • Gaulois (1896) - Torpedoed 1916
  • Henri IV (1899) - Stricken 1921
  • Iena (1898) - Sank after explosion 1907
  • Suffren (1899) - Torpedoed 1916
  • République class
    • République (1902) - Stricken 1921
    • Patrie (1903) - Stricken 1928
  • Liberté class
    • Liberté (1905) - Sank after explosion 1911
    • Justice (1904) - Stricken 1922
    • Vérité (1907) - Stricken 1922
    • Démocratie (1904) - Stricken 1921
  • Danton class ("semi-Dreadnoughts")
    • Danton (1909) - Torpedoed 1917 in Tyrrhenian Sea
    • Voltaire (1909)
    • Diderot (1909)
    • Condorcet (1909)
    • Mirabeau (1909)
    • Vergniaud (1910)
Jean Bart in 1918
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Jean Bart in 1918

Dreadnoughts

  • Courbet class
    • Jean Bart (1911) - Renamed Océan 1936, scuttled 1944, broken up (BU) 1946-47
    • Courbet (1911) - scuttled 1944 during the Battle of Normandy
    • Paris (1912)
    • France (1912) - Wrecked 1922
  • Bretagne class
    • Provence (1913) - Scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, scuttled 1944, refloated 1949, BU
    • Bretagne (1913) - Sunk 1940, BU 1950s
    • Lorraine (1913) - BU 1954
  • Normandie class (all except Béarn were cancelled and scrapped after launching)
    • Gascogne (1914) - BU 1923-24
    • Normandie (1914) - BU 1924-25
    • Flandre (1914) - BU 1924
    • Languedoc (1916) - BU 1929
    • Béarn (1920) (completed as aircraft carrier) - BU 1967
  • Lyon class (not begun)
    • Duquesne (-)
    • Lille (-)
    • Lyon (-)
    • Tourville (-)
  • Dunkerque class
    • Dunkerque (1935) - Scuttled 1942, refloated 1945
    • Strasbourg (1936) - Scuttled 1942, refloated 1943, sunk 1944, refloated 1945,
  • Richelieu class
    • Richelieu (1939) - BU 1964
    • Jean Bart (1940) - BU 1970
    • Clemenceau (1943) - Bombed 1944, never finished
    • Gascogne (cancelled)
  • Alsace class (not begun)
    • Alsace (-)
    • Normandie (-)
    • Flandre (-)
    • Bourgogne (-)
    • unnamed (-)
    • unnamed (-)

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