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Thursday 10 March 2016

French battleship Bretagne (1913) in 1923


Bretagne type. Launched in 1913, completed in 1915, displacement 23.177 tons, horsepower 29.000 hp. Coal-oil fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 10-13.4” guns, 18-5.5” guns, 8 smaller light guns and 4 submerged torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.