French dreadnought battleship Jean Bart 1910-1936 and training ship Océan 1936-1945

Danton-class

Courbet-class

Bretagne-class

Lai down at the Arsenal de Brest, France on 15 November 1910, launched on 22 September 1911, commissioned on 5 June 1913, her crew mutinied briefly while serving in the Black Sea to support the Russian Whites in April 1919, modernized 12 October 1923-29 January 1925 and 7 August 1929-29 September 1931, disarmed and hulked used as harbour training ship since 1936, renamed Océan in 1936, captured by German forces when took over Toulon, France on 27 November 1942, used for testing large shaped charged warheads, sunk by Allied aircraft in 1944, raised  and broken up en situ on 14 December 1945.

Of the Courbet-class consisting of the Courbet, Jean Bart, Paris and France predeced 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.