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French naval battleships and battleship histories from 1859 to 1945, from the Gloire Class broadside ironclads through the dreadnought Danton class to the Richelieu class. Use the list below to view battleship class of interest. |
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NAME | LAUNCH DATE | FATE |
Gloire Class Broadside Ironclads |
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Gloire | 24th November 1859 | Stricken 1879 |
Invincible | 4th April 1861 | Stricken 1872 |
Normandie | 10th March 1860 | Stricken 1871 |
Couronne Broadside Ironclad |
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Couronne | 28th March 1861 | Hulked 1910 |
Magenta Class Broadside Ironclads |
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Magenta | 22nd June 1861 | Sunk by internal explosion 21st October 1875 |
Solferino | 24th June 1861 | Stricken 1882 |
Provence Class Broadside Ironclads |
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Flandre | 12th June 1864 | Stricken 1886 |
Gauloise | 26th April 1865 | Stricken 1883 |
Guyenne | 6th September 1865 | Stricken 1882 |
Magnanime | 19th August 1864 | Stricken 1882 |
Provence | 29th October 1863 | Stricken 1884 |
Revanche | 28th December 1865 | Scrapped 1893 |
Savoie | 29th September 1863 | Stricken 1888 |
Surveillante | 18th August 1864 | Stricken 1890 |
Valeureuse | 18th August 1864 | Stricken 1886 |
Heroine | 10th December 1863 | Hulked 1894 |
Ocean Class Central Battery Ships |
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Ocean | 15th October 1868 | Stricken 1894 |
Marengo | 4th December 1869 | Sold 1896 |
Suffren | 26th December 1870 | Stricken 1897 |
Friedland Central Battery Ship |
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Friedland | 25th October 1873 | Stricken 1902 |
Richelieu Central Battery Ship |
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Richelieu | 3rd December 1873 | Sold 1901 |
Colbert Class Central Battery Ships View Class |
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Colbert | 16th September 1875 | Stricken 1900 |
Trident | 9th November 1876 | Hulked 1904 |
Redoutable Central Battery Ship |
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Redoutable | September 1876 | Stricken 1910 |
Courbet Class Central Battery Ships View Class |
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Courbet | April 1882 | Stricken 1910 |
Devastation | April 1879 | Scrapped 1922 |
Amiral Duperre Barbette Ship |
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Amiral Duperre | Sept 1879 | Stricken 1909 |
Terrible Class Barbette Ships View Class |
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Caiman | May 1885 | Scrapped 1927 |
Indomptable | Sept 1883 | Scrapped 1927 |
Requin | June 1885 | Stricken 1920 |
Terrible | 1881 | Stricken 1911 |
Amiral Baudin Class Barbette Ships View Class |
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Amiral Baudin | June 1883 | Hulked 1909 |
Formidable | April 1885 | Stricken 1911 |
Hoche Turret Barbette Ship |
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Hoche | September 1886 | used as target 25th November 1913 |
Marceau Barbette Ship Class View Class |
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Magenta | April 1890 | Stricken 1910 |
Marceau | May 1887 | Scrapped 1922 |
Neptune | May 1887 | Stricken 1913 |
Brennus Turret Battleship |
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Brennus | October 1891 | Scrapped 1922 |
Charles Martel Battleship |
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Charles Martel | August 1893 | Stricken 1922 |
Carnot Battleship |
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Carnot | July 1884 | Stricken 1922 |
Jaureguiberry Battleship |
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Jaureguiberry | Nov 1893 | Scrapped 1934 |
Massena Battleship |
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Massena | July 1895 | Hulked 1915 |
Bouvet Battleship |
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Bouvet | 27th May 1896 | Sunk 18th March 1915, hit a mine of the Dardanelles, capsized and sank within 2 minutes with the loss of 660 |
Charlemagne Class View Class |
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Charlemagne | 17th October 1895 | Scrapped sometime after 1920. |
Gaulois | 8th October 1896 | Sunk on 27th December 1916. |
St Louis | 8th September 1896 | Scrapped in 1933. |
Henri IV | 23rd August 1899 | Scrapped sometime after 1921. |
Iena | 1st September 1898 | Sunk after explosion on board on 12th March 1907. |
Suffren | 25th July 1899 | Served in Dardanelles campaign on 18th March 1915 and took severe damage but was repaired only to be sunk by U52 on 26th November 1916. |
Republique Class View Class | ||
Republique | 4th September 1902 | Served in Mediterranean during WW1. Scrapped after 1921. |
Patrie | 17th December 1903 | Served in Mediterranean during WW1. Scrapped after 1928. |
Liberte Class View Class | ||
Democratie | 30th April 1904 | Served in Mediterranean during WW1. Scrapped after 1921. |
Justice | 27th October 1904 | Served in Mediterranean during WW1. Scrapped after 1922. |
Liberte | 19th April 1905 | Sank after an explosion on board 25th September 1911. |
Verite | 28th May 1907 | Served in Mediterranean during WW1. Scrapped after 1922. |
Danton Class View Class | ||
Condorcet | 20th August 1909 | Taken off the list in 1931. |
Danton | 4th July 1909 | Sunk by torpedo from U64 on 19th March 1917. |
Diderot | 19th April 1909 | Broken up in 1937. |
Mirabeau | 28th October 1909 | Salvaged after grounding herself in February 1919 and then used for target. |
Vergniaud | 12th April 1910 | Taken off list in 1921 and used for target practice until 1926 Sold in 1927 and broken up for scrap in 1929. |
Voltaire | 16th January 1909 | Torpedoed twice by UB48 on 10th October but was not sunk. Taken off list in 1935 and scrapped 1939. |
Courbet Class View Class | ||
Courbet | 23rd September 1913 | Scuttled on 9th June 1944 |
France | 7th November 1912 | Foundered on 26th August 1922. |
Jean Bart | 22nd September 1911 | Sold for scrapping on 14th December 1945. |
Paris | 28th September 1912 | Sold for scrapping on 21st December 1955. |
Bretagne Class View Class | ||
Bretagne | 21st April 1913 | Sunk on 3rd July 1940. Salvaged in 1952 she was subsequently scrapped |
Lorraine | 30th September 1913 | Used as a training ship from 1945-53. Scrapped in 1954. |
Provence | 20th April 1913 | Repaired after damage at Mers-el-Kebir in November 1940 but scuttled two years later. Salvaged by the Germans in July 1943, her guns were used as a battery near Toulon. Sunk as a blockship in 1944 she was raised in April 1949 for breaking. |
Normandie Class View Class | ||
Bearn | April 1920 | Converted to an aircraft carrier in 1923-27. |
Flandre | 20th October 1914 | Scrapped in October 1924. |
Gascoigne | 20th September 1914 | Scrapped in 1923-24. |
Languedoc | 1st May 1916 | Scrapped in June 1929. |
Normandie | 19th October 1914 | Scrapped in 1924-25. |
Dunkerque Class View Class | ||
Dunkerque | 2nd October 1935 | Scuttled on 27th November 1942. Sold for scrapping in 1958. |
Strasbourg | 12th December 1936 | Scuttled on 27th November 1942. Salvaged by the Italian Navy a year later and returned to Toulon in 1944 where she was bombed and sunk. Eventually scrapped in May 1955. |
Richelieu Class View Class | ||
Richelieu | 17th January 1939 | Served as an accommodation ship before being scrapped in 1964. |
Jean Bart | 6th March 1940 | Completed only in 1955 she was stricken in January 1961 before being scrapped in 1970. |
Early Battleships - Danton Class - Courbet Class - Bretagne Class - Normandie Class - Dunkerque Class - Richelieu Class - Liberte Class - Republique Class - Amiral Baudin Class - Terrible Class |
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