Brittany class

Brittany- class

the Brittany

Ship data country  France Ship type Battleship Construction period 1912 to 1916 Launch of the type ship April 21, 1913 Units built 3 period of service 1915 to 1953

Ship dimensions and crew length 166.0 m ( Lüa ) 167.9 m ( KWL ) width 26.9 m Draft Max. 9.8 m displacement Construction: 23,230 tons maximum: 28,500 tons   crew 1124 men

Machine system machine 24 × steam boilers 2 × Parsons turbines Machine performance 29,000 PS (21,329 kW) Top speed 20.0 kn (37 km / h) propeller 4th

Armament 10 × Sk 340 mm L / 45 22 × SK 138.6 mm L / 55 Armor Belt: 160-270 mm Citadel: 80–180 mm Upper deck: 30-40 mm upper armored deck: 40 mm lower armored deck: 40 mm, slopes 70 mm Longitudinal tank bulkhead: 8 mm Barbettes: 248-270 mm Towers: 72–400 mm Casemate: 180 mm Command tower: 314 mm

The Bretagne- class was a battleship - class of the French Navy . The type ship was Brittany , which was commissioned in September 1915 . It was sunk in Mers-el-Kébir on July 3, 1940 during World War II by artillery fire from Hood , Valiant and Resolution . The Brittany had two sister ships:

• the Provence and
• the Lorraine .

construction

Elevation of the Brittany- class ships

The ships each carried ten of the new 340 mm L / 45 Modèle 1912 guns.

The steam boilers of the three existing battleships were converted to oil firing between 1921 and 1936. The 14,000 hp more powerful drive (the original design had 29,000 hp) only increased speed to 21.5 knots.

literature

• Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 .