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Charles Martel ' s armor weighed 4,569 t (4,497 long tons), 38.5% of the ship's displacement, and was constructed from a mix of nickel steel and compound armor plates that were manufactured by Schneider-Creusot. The waterline belt extended the full length of the ship and it had an average height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in), although it reduced to 1.8 m ...
These names were Saint-Louis, Henri IV, Charlemagne, Brennus, Charles Martel and Vercingetorix. All work on the Saint-Louis class was scrapped after the fall of France on 25 June 1940, without a finalized armour layout (out of four different suggested plans) and without finalized details on the engines.
The Charles Martel class was a planned class of ironclad barbette ships of the French Navy.The class comprised two ships, Charles Martel and Brennus, and represented an incremental improvement over the preceding Marceau class, being larger, but carrying the same main battery of four 340 mm (13.4 in) guns in single mounts.
Charles Martel (/ m ɑːr ˈ t ɛ l /; c. 688 – 22 October 741), [3] Martel being a sobriquet in Old French for "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the Franks from 718 until his death.
Ship Flag Class and type Pennant Other notes 16 February French Navy: Jauréguiberry: Pre-dreadnought battleship 20 February French Navy: Charles Martel: Pre-dreadnought battleship 8 June Royal Navy: Renown: Pre-dreadnought battleship 8 June Royal Navy: Jupiter [1] Majestic-class battleship 8 June Royal Navy: Mars: Majestic-class battleship 16 June
Compared to Charles Martel, Carnot was broadly similar, with the same main battery, though she had a smaller superstructure in an attempt to minimize topweight and thus instability that plagued many French capital ships during this period. The ship was nevertheless still too top-heavy and proved to suffer from insufficient stability.
Masséna was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s.She was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, along with Charles Martel, Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, and Carnot, that were ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign class.
After their completion he suggested a race between the battleships; after two hours Brennus trailed the newer Charles Martel and Carnot, but beat four older ships. [23] The ship's figurehead preserved at the Musée national de la Marine. The ship participated in the annual fleet maneuvers during 8–20 July.