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Thursday, 17 September 2020

French battleship France maybe salvaged according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 26 April 1935

Danton-class

Courbet-class

Bretagne-class

An item reported that on short notice was to be started with the salvaging of the French battleship France by a French salvage company. She strike shortly after the end of the First World War a rock in the entrance of the Quiberon Bay and sunk (1)

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1. The Courbet-class consisting of the Courbet, France, Jean Bart and Paris, preceded by the Danton-class and succeeded by the Bretagne-class, built between 1910-1914, with a displacement of 23.475 (standard-(25.579 (full load) tons. Machinery consisted of 4-shaft Parsons direct-drive steam turbines and 24 boilers delivering 28.000ihp. Building ordered on 1 August 1911, laid down by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint Nazaire, France on 30 November 1911, launched on 7 November 1912, completed on 1 July 1914 and foundered on 26 August 1922..

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