French Battleship Jean Bart

French Battleship Jean Bart 1936 – 1970

Career (France)
Name: Jean Bart
Laid down: December 1936
Launched: 6 March 1940
Completed: 1952
Commissioned: 16 January 1949
Decommissioned: 1961
Reclassified: 1961 Gunnery School Tender
Struck: 1969
Fate: 24 June 1970
General characteristics
Class and type: Richelieu class battleship
Displacement: 35,000 tons standard as designed

48,950 t at full load , in 1949
Length: 248 m
Beam: 35 m
Draught: 9.60 m
Propulsion: four Parsons geared turbines,
six Indret «Sural» boilers
150,000 hp (112 MW)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range: 7671 nautical miles (14,207 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3181 nautical miles (5,891 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 911 men in 1950 (incomplete)
1,280 men during the Suez affair
Armament:
  • 8 x 380mm/45 Modèle 1935 guns in quadruple mounts at bow
  • 9 × 152 mm AA in 3 triple turrets at the aft

till 1952-53

  • 8 × 40 mm AA
  • 20 × 20 mm AA

from 1953-54

  • 24 × 100 mm in 12 twin mountings CAD Model 1945
  • 28 × 57 mm in 14 twin mountings ACAD Model 1950
Armour:
  • Belt: 330 mm
  • Upper armoured deck: 150-170 mm
  • Lower armoured deck: 40 mm

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French Battlship Jean Bart