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Richelieu was a French fast battleship, the lead ship of the Richelieu class.Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, Richelieu and its sister ship Jean Bart were based on their immediate predecessors of the Dunkerque class: they used the same unconventional arrangement that grouped their main battery forward in two quadruple gun turrets.
The Richelieu class were fast battleships built for the French Navy between the 1930s and 1950s. Initially two ships were ordered in 1935 in response to Italian orders for the Littorio-class battleships the previous year.
French patrol boat Richelieu (1915), an auxiliary, La Tanche-like, patrol boat. [1] French battleship Richelieu (1939), a fast battleship. [1] French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was originally to have been named Richelieu. [1] [2] [3] French aircraft carrier PA2 (now cancelled) would potentially have been named Richelieu. [4]
Jean Bart was a French fast battleship, the second and final member of the Richelieu class.Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, the Richelieus were based on their immediate predecessors of the Dunkerque class with the same unconventional arrangement that grouped their main battery forward in two quadruple gun turrets.
Richelieu passing through the East River to be completed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in early 1943. Between 1889 and 1949, the French Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought, dreadnought, and fast battleships, ultimately totaling thirty-four vessels: twenty-three pre-dreadnoughts, seven dreadnoughts, and four fast battleships.
The French ironclad Richelieu was a wooden-hulled central battery ironclad built for the French Navy in the early 1870s. She was named after the 17th century statesman Cardinal de Richelieu. The ship was the flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron for most of her career.
Richelieu (1873) 8,984 tons – sold 1901, sank in the Bay of Biscay after sale. [1] ... Though this ship was designed for sail as well as steam power, her sails were ...
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).