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Brian James
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Armoured Ironclad Frigate FS Colbert pictured with Central Battery Ironclad Barbette Ship FS Redoutable at Arsenal de Brest c1882.
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Two more views of REDOUBTABLE! A moldy oldy...:) DFO
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Oh, I think I can do old clunkers too......
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I think you are IN LOVE with ancient termite ridden boats! Welcome back aboard!!! Careful on that ol WOODEN gangplank! :lol: ;) DFO
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Typical 5.4 inch Gun Deck armament of a French Ironclad c1880.
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An example of a typical broadside mounted 13.4 inch breech loader on a French Ironclad Battleship in 1884.
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Villars Class Cruiser FS Dubourdieu pictured at Mare Island Navy Yard c 1890.
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Pre-Dreadnought Ironclad Battleship FS Charles Martel pictured c1898.
She was laid down in August 1891 at Arsenal de Brest, launched in August 1893, and commissioned into the fleet in June 1897. She was a member of a group of five broadly similar Battleships ordered as part of the French response to a major British naval construction program. The five ships were built to the same basic design parameters, though the individual architects were allowed to deviate from each other in other details. Like her half-sisters—Carnot, Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, and Masséna—she was armed with a main battery of two 12.0 in guns and two 10.8 in guns. She had a top speed of 18 knots.
Charles Martel spent her active career in the Mediterranean Squadron of the French fleet, first in the active squadron, and later in the Reserve Squadron. She regularly participated in fleet manoeuvers, and in the 1901 exercises, the submarine Gustave Zédé hit her with a dummy torpedo, which caused a significant controversy in the French press. The ship was involved in an international squadron that intervened in the Cretan Revolt in 1897. Charles Martel spent just five years in the active squadron, having been surpassed by more modern Battleships during a period of rapid developments in naval technology. She spent the years 1902–1914 in reserve, and in early 1914 the French Navy decided to discard the vessel. After the outbreak of World War I, however, the navy kept the ship in its inventory, though Charles Martel was not reactivated for service during the conflict. She was ultimately broken up in 1922.
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A pair of stern views of CHARLES MARTEL.

Specs (Wiki): 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 ")
Ammo supply must have been interesting!
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Ironclad Battleship FS Carnot pictured c1898.
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.
Carnot 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.
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