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
- 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) - BU 1939
- Diderot (1909) - BU 1937
- Condorcet (1909) - Scuttled 1942
- Mirabeau (1909) - BU 1928
- Vergniaud (1910) - BU 1928
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) - BU 1956
- France (1912) - Wrecked 1922
- Bretagne class
- 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
- Alsace class (not begun)
- Alsace (-)
- Normandie (-)
- Flandre (-)
- Bourgogne (-)
- unnamed (-)
- unnamed (-)
