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Thursday, 20 February 2025

National subscription for replacing French battleship Liberté according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 27 September 1911

French Liberté-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

An item dated The Hague, Netherlands 26th reported that in France a national subscription was expected to built a new battleship to replace the Liberté.(1)

Note

1. Part of Liberté-class preceded by République-class succeeded by Danton-class, laid down by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France in November 1902, launched on 19 April 1905, completed on 13 April 1909, destroyed by an explosion in a charges magazine at Toulon on 25 September 1911 and wrecked towed into a drydock in 1925 and broken up. 

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