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| Builder: | Saint-Nazaire, France |
| Laid down: | November 30, 1911 |
| Launched: | November 7, 1912 |
| Commissioned: | July 15, 1914 |
| Fate: | Foundered August 26, 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 22,189 tonnes |
| Length: | 166. See also the St Nazaire Raid Saint-Nazaire ( Breton: Sant-Nazer) is a town and ''commune'' in the Loire-Atlantique département This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the tonne or metric ton For other tons see Ton. 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 (37 km/h) |
| Range: | 1,140 nautical miles (2,110 km) at full speed. 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1085 to 1100 |
| Armament: |
12 × 305mm/45 Modèle 1910 guns 4×47 mmguns 4×450 mmtorpedotubes |
| Armour: | Belt: 270 mm Deck: 30 to 50 mm Bridge: 300 mm |
The French battleship France was a Courbet classdreadnought battleship of the French Navy. Genesis Battleships of the era typically carried four large guns mounted fore and aft in twin turrets with a number of smaller-calibre guns ranged along the sides of the A battleship is a large heavily armored Warship with a main battery consisting of the largest Calibre of Guns Battleships were The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale ( National Navy) and often called La Royale ( The Royal Navy) is the maritime arm The Courbet class were designed by M. Lyasse. France was built as part of the 1910 naval building programme.
France was the only one of the Courbet class to be built by the A. C. de la Loire company in St Nazaire. She was commissioned ceremoniously as part of the Bastille Day celebrations in 1914. Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. Almost immediately after being commissioned, she and her sister ship, Paris, were sent to Saint Petersburg, Russia as part of French President Raymond Poincaré's official visit. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Raymond Poincaré (20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934 was a French conservative Statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five Both ships were en route home through the Baltic Sea when the First World War broke out in August 1914. The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All At the time, France was not fully armed and had no ammunition aboard and she and Paris barely managed to escape the German High Seas Fleet. The High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte was the main battle fleet of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy during World War I.
France, upon her return to France, was properly armed and ordered, along with her three sister ships, to serve in the Mediterranean Sea against the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish Navies. The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the naval force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After the war, in 1919 she took part in the Sevastopol operations against the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Sevastopol ( see pronunciation below) is a port city in Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea Peninsula The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists ( Большевик Большевист (singular, derived from bolshe, "more" were a faction
On 26 August 1922, she was patrolling Quiberon Bay and struck an uncharted rock. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Quiberon or Kiberen in Breton is a commune of the Morbihan département, in the région of As she was only patrolling she did not have her full crew onboard, so there were few casualties.
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