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: |
till 1952-53
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