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Brennus, built in the late 19th century, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy. During this period, the French Navy experimented with the Jeune École, which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and cruisers instead of the expensive ironclad warships that had dominated naval construction in the 1860s and 1870s, and so the navy ordered a series of experimental designs to ...
France was the last of four Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. The ship was completed just before the start of World War I in August 1914. Even though France was not officially completed, she ferried the President of France to Russia during the July Crisis for consultations.
This is a list of French battleships of the period 1410–1639: [1] Nef de Morlaix / Marie de la Cordelière (Queen's ship) - Sunk in battle , 1512 Nef de Brest (Queen's ship)
Napoléon was a 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the first purpose-built steam battleship in the world. [1] She is also considered the first true steam battleship, and the first screw battleship ever. [2] Launched in 1850, she was the lead ship of a class of nine battleships, all built over a period of ten years.
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Richelieu was a French fast battleship, the lead ship of the Richelieu class.Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, Richelieu and its sister ship Jean Bart were based on their immediate predecessors of the Dunkerque class: they used the same unconventional arrangement that grouped their main battery forward in two quadruple gun turrets.
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).
Lorraine was a battleship of the French Navy built in the 1910s, named in honor of the region of Lorraine in France. She was a member of the Bretagne class, alongside her two sister ships, Bretagne and Provence.