Richelieu (1873)

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Battleship Richelieu
Career French Navy Ensign
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Laid down: 1868
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Commissioned: 1873
Decommissioned: 1901
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The Richelieu was a central battery ironclad battleship of the French Navy. She was named after the seventeenth century statesman Cardinal de Richelieu.

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