Liberté class battleship
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 The Liberté |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Liberté |
| Builders: | Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Preceded by: | République class battleship |
| Succeeded by: | Danton class battleship |
| In commission: | 1908 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Lost: | 1 accidentally |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | battleship |
| Displacement: | 14 900 tonnes |
| Length: | 134 m |
| Beam: | 24.25 m |
| Draught: | 8.40 m |
| Propulsion: | 3 steam engines, 22 boilers, 20 500 HP |
| Speed: | 19.4 knots |
| Range: | 8000 nm at 12 knots |
| Capacity: | 900 tonnes of coal |
| Complement: | 25 officers, 715 men |
| Armament: |
4 × 305mm/40 Modèle 1893 guns (twin) |
| Armour: | Belt: 280 mm |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Liberté, Justice, Vérité, Démocratie |
The Liberté ("liberty") class was a type of pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, an improvement of the République class battleship of a similar design.
The type was designed by engineer Émile Bertin. Each unit cost 42 millions francs in gold.
With the Liberté class, French pre-dreadnought design finally caught up with U.S. and British standards (the Mississippi class battleships and Lord Nelson class battleships respectively).
