French Courbet-class battleships to be fitted out with barbette gun turrets according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1911-1912 no.7

Danton-class

Courbet-class

Bretagne-class

An item reported that the French navy fitted the four new battleships Courbet, Jean Bart, “C” and “D” laid down in 1910-1911 instead of the until then used pivot gun turrets out with barbette gun turrets.(1)

Note 
1. Courbet-class consisted of the Courbet, Jean Bart, Paris and France preceded by the Danton-class and succeeded by the Bretagne-class. General technical specifications of the Courbet-class. With a displacement of 23.475 tons/21.104 tons (standard)-25.579 tons/25.175 long tons (full load) and with as dimensions 166 (over all) x 27 x 9,04 (fore normal load) metres or 544.7 x 88.7 x 29.8 feet. The four direct-drive Parsons-steam turbines and 24 boilers (8 small in rear boiler room and 16 large in 2 boiler rooms fore) supplied via 4 shafts 28.000 ihp allowing a speed of 21 knots (trials) and with a speed of 10 knots and a bunker capacity of 2.743 tons and 921 tons fuel oil a range of 4.200 nautical miles. The crew numbered between 1.115-1.187 men. The armour consisted of a 18-27c,/7.1-10.6  thick belt, a 3-7cm/1.2-2,8” thick deck with the gun turrets, barbettes and conning tower protected by respectively 25-29cm/9.8-11.4”, 28cm/11.0’ and 30cm/11.8”. None anti torpedo-bulkhead. The armament consisted of 6x2-30,5cm/12” Mle 1910 45 cal guns, 22x1-13,8cm/5.4 Mle 1910 guns, 4x1-4,7cm/1.9” guns and 4-45cm/17.7” torpedo tubes. Quite wet ships when used while the fore turrets caused a bow-heavy ship.