French battleship Jean Bart (1911)
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.jpg/300px-Jean_Bart_(1911).jpg) The Jean Bart in 1914 |
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| Career (France) |  |
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| Namesake: | Jean Bart |
| Builder: | Lorient shipyard |
| Laid down: | 15 November 1910 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 1913. |
| In service: | 1913 |
| Homeport: | Toulon |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Courbet class battleship |
| 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. 4,200 nmi (7,800 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1085 to 1100 |
| Armament: |
12 × 305mm/45 Modèle 1910 guns |
| Armour: | Belt: 270 mm Deck: 30 to 50 mm Bridge: 300 mm |
The Jean Bart was a battleship and the first dreadnought of the French Navy. She was named in honour of Jean Bart.
After her commissioning in 1913, she ferried President Raymond Poincaré to Russia.
After the outbreak of World War I, she was torpedoed by Austrian submarine U12 near Otranto, on 21 September 1914. From 26 December 1914, she was under repair in Malta. In 1918, she served off Greece.
In April 1919, as she was in Sevastopol, her crew mutined, along with that of the France. She returned to Toulon and 1920 and was used for training purposees for the École Navale from 1935. She was renamed Océan in 1936.
She was captured by the Germans on 27 November 1942, the day the French Fleet scuttled itself. At that time, she was totally obsolete and not seaworthy anymore. In 1946, she was scrapped.
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