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Tuesday 3 January 2017

Mysterious fire broken out on board of the French battleship Gaulois according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 13 July 1907


An item reported that the mysterious fire broken out on board of the French battleship Gaulois part of the Mediterranean squadron was in now time extinguished.(1)

Note
1. Of the Charlemagne-class pre-dreadnought battleships. Building ordered 22 January 1895, laid down at the Arsenal de Brest, France on 6 January 1896, launched on 6 October 1896, commissioned on 23 October 1899 and sunk by the German submarine UB-47 on 27 December 1916.