République-class battleship
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The République class consisted of a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships—République, the lead ship, and Patrie—built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. They were ordered as part of a naval expansion program directed at countering German warship construction authorized by the German Naval Law of 1898. The French program called for six new battleships; the last four became the very similar Liberté class. République and Patrie, designed by Louis-Émile Bertin, were a significant improvement over previous French battleships. They carried a similar offensive armament of four 305 mm (12 in) guns and eighteen 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, though most of the 164 mm guns were now mounted in more flexible gun turrets rather than in casemates. They also had a much more effective armor protection arrangement that remedied the tendency of earlier battleships to lose stability from relatively minor damage.
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Republique class battleship
2 produced,
Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, French Navy, France,
Dreadnought, Patrie, République,
- Dreadnought Project page@
Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| object | watercraft | Patrie | pre-dreadnought battleship, République-class battleship | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | République | pre-dreadnought battleship, République-class battleship | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Republique (1906) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Les grandes manoeuvres navales à Toulon - "Le République" - photographie de presse - Agence Meurisse - btv1b90203034 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | République class diagrams Brasseys 1906 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Les grandes manoeuvres navales - Le République - photographie de presse - Agence Meurisse - btv1b90423284 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Blindage et armement des cuirasses Republique et Patrie en 1910 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Armor plate from the Liberty after explosion | Commons | ||




