Battleships: Charles Martel

[Brian James]

Pre-Dreadnought Battleship FS Charles Martel pictured c1898.

[designeraccd]

Other views of this ironclad........

Specs (Wiki):

Type: Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 11,880 t (11,690 long tons; 13,100 short tons)
Length: 115.49 m (378.9 ft)
Beam: 21.64 m (71.0 ft)
Draft: 8.38 m (27.5 ft)
Propulsion: 2-shaft triple expansion engines
24 boilers
13,500 ihp (10,100 kW)

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 644
Armament: 2 × 305mm/45 Modèle 1887 guns
2 × 274mm/45 Modèle 1887 guns
8 × 138mm/45 Modèle 1888 guns
8 × Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 guns
12 × 47 mm Modèle 1885 guns
8 × 37 mm revolving cannon
2 × 450mm torpedo tubes

Armor: Belt: 30.5 to 46 cm (12.0 to 18.1 in)
Turrets: 38 cm (15 in)
Conning tower: 23 cm (9.1 in)
Deck: 7 cm (2.8 in)

Broken up in 1922, altho she was not active in WW1. DFO

[designeraccd]

The old CHARLES MARTEL, a true floating castle!! Here she is from launch to abandoned, stripped hulk. DFO

[Brian James]

Pre-Dreadnought Battleship FS Carnot pictured in the basin at Arsenale de Brest in 1905...She was laid down at Toulon in July 1891, launched in July 1894, and completed in July 1897. She was a member of a group of five broadly similar Battleships, along with Charles Martel, Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, and Masséna, which were ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign Class. Like her half-sisters, she was armed with a main battery of two 12.0 in guns and two 10.8 in guns in individual turrets. She had a top speed of 17.8 knots.She had a fairly uneventful career. She spent the majority of her service life in the Northern and Mediterranean Squadrons of the French fleet, where she participated in extensive, annual maneuvers. She was withdrawn from service by the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, and so did not see action during the conflict. She remained in the French Navy's inventory until 1922, when she was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap.