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Monday 28 January 2019

French battleship Liberté executed full power trials according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1907 No. 11

Library of Congres Call Number: LC-D4-22621. Taken around 1909. Original source

An item reported that the French battleship Liberté executed on 14 September her offal full power trial with as result a horsepower of 2-.565 ihp which was 2.565 more than expected. Of the four battleships built under the 1906 Program was her horsepower the largest.

Note
1. Of the Liberté-class pre-dreadnought battleships designed by Emile Bertin, preceded by the République-classs and succeeded by the Danton-class, laid down at the Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint Nazaire, France in November 1902, launched on 19 April 1905, completed in March 1908 and destroyed by an accidental explosion in her magazines in the harbour of Toulon, France on 25 September 1911.