Paris (ship, 1912)
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 The battleship Paris |
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| Builder: | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée , La Seyne-sur-Mer |
| Commissioned: | 1909 |
| Keel laying: | November 10, 1911 |
| Launch: | September 28, 1912 |
| Commissioning: | August 1, 1914 |
| Fate: | scrapped and scrapped in 1956 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 23,850 t |
| Length: | 168 m |
| Width: | 27.9 m |
| Draft: | 8.85 m |
| Drive: | 24 Belleville steam boilers 4 steam turbines (Parsons type) |
| Power: | 28,000 hp |
| Top speed: | 21 knots |
| Range: | 4200 nm at 10 kn |
| Crew: | 1068 men officers and men |
| Armament: | 12 × 305 mm / 45 Model 1910 (6x2) 22 × 138.6 mm / 55 Model 1910 (in casemates) 7 × 75 mm / 62.5 Model 1908 (7x1) 2 × 47 mm Hotchkiss (2x1) |
| Armor: | Belt: 270 mm Citadel: 180 mm Back deck: 45 mm Upper deck: 50 mm Armored deck: 45 mm Towers: 290 mm Barbettes: 280 mm Command post: 300 mm |
The Paris was a French battleship of Courbet class . She was laid down on November 10, 1911 and launched on September 28, 1912. The Paris was finally completed on August 1, 1914.
First World War
After its commissioning, the Paris became the flagship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Squadron.
The Paris spent all four years of the war in the southern Adriatic , escorting troop transports and securing convoys. On December 12, 1918, the battleship entered the Austro- Hungarian naval port in Pula to supervise the handover of the Austro- Hungarian navy. The ship returned to Toulon on June 20 via Corfu , Beirut and Symirna .
Interwar period
From 1920 to 1928 the Paris was part of the French Navy's Western Mediterranean Squadron . In the summer of 1925, during the Rif War , it fired at coastal batteries in support of Spanish landing forces. The 30.5 cm shells completely destroyed the batteries, but the ship also had to accept six hits, which caused only minor damage. Until October 1927, the Paris remained as the flagship of the Fleet Association in front of Morocco and then returned to the home port of Toulon to take up a long shipyard layover. In the 1930s she was a training ship for artillerymen, machinists and helmsmen.
Second World War
When the Second World War broke out , the battleship belonged to the 3rd Division of the 5th Squadron. Still a training ship, she was only made ready for war on May 21, 1940 and, after the full crew was established, moved to Cherbourg . After the rapid advance of the German Wehrmacht , the Paris was originally intended to provide fire support to the French army on the Somme Front. However, a lack of aerial observation made the company impossible. Instead, the ship was used in the defense of Le Havre and received a bomb hit on the port side. The ship was badly damaged and took in 300 tons of water an hour. The Paris had to be withdrawn and moved slowly first to Cherbourg and from there to Brest .
After only four days, she had to leave the port of Brest again to avoid being captured by German forces. With a speed of only seven knots and an additional 2800 men on board, the still damaged ship ran to Plymouth . There the Paris was occupied by the Royal Navy on July 3, 1940 in the course of Operation Grasp . First a depot ship, later it became a barge for the Polish Navy .
post war period
After the end of the war, the Paris was returned to France in July 1945. The tug Mammuth towed the ship to Brest, where it was completely repaired. The Paris also served as a depot ship in Brest . She was removed from the fleet register on December 21, 1955 and scrapped a year later.
literature
- Mike J. Whitley: Battleships of World War II . Motorbuch Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-613-02289-3 .