Courbet-class
An item reported that the French battleship Jean Bart was to depart the same day Toulon, France destined for Constantinople, Turkey. It was believed that the French cabinet considered the situation in the Middle East was much worse as first thought.
Notes
1. Laid 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.
2. At that moment was the Turkish War of Independence between 19 May 1919-11 October 1922 although there was an armistice still unfinished. Not earlier as on 24 July 1923 was with the Treaty of Lausanne peace. Their opponents of the Ottoman Sultanate were Armenia, Greece, England, Italy and France. The locations of the acts were was Anatolia, North Mesopotamia and Thrace.
