French battleship Charlemagne

Charlemagne at anchor
History
France
Name:	Charlemagne
Namesake:	Charlemagne
Builder:	Arsenal de Brest
Laid down:	2 August 1894
Launched:	17 October 1895
Completed:	12 September 1897
Commissioned:	15 September 1897
Decommissioned:	1 November 1917
Struck:	21 June 1920
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1923
General characteristics
Class and type:	Charlemagne-class battleship
Displacement:	11,275 t (11,097 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	117.7 m (386 ft 2 in)
Beam:	20.3 m (66 ft 7 in)
Draught:	8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Installed power:	14,500 PS (10,700 kW) 20 Belleville water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	3 shafts, 3 four-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range:	4,200 miles (3,650 nmi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	727
Armament:	2 × 2 - 305 mm (12 in) Mle 1893 guns 10 × 1 - 138.6 mm (5.46 in) Mle 1893 guns 8 × 1 - 100 mm (3.9 in) Mle 1893 guns 20 × 1 - 47 mm Mle 1885 Hotchkiss guns 4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 110–320 mm (4.3–12.6 in) Decks: 55–90 mm (2.2–3.5 in) Barbettes: 270 mm (10.6 in) Turrets: 320 mm (12.6 in) Conning tower: 326 mm (12.8 in)

Charlemagne was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the mid-1890s, name ship of her class. She spent most of her career assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron (escadre de la Méditerranée). Twice she participated in the occupation of the port of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, then owned by the Ottoman Empire, once as part of a French expedition and another as part of an international squadron.

When World War I began in August 1914, she escorted Allied troop convoys for the first two months. Charlemagne was ordered to the Dardanelles in November 1914 to guard against a sortie into the Mediterranean by the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben. In 1915, she joined British ships in bombarding Turkish fortifications under the command of Rear Admiral (contre-amiral) Emile Guépratte. The ship was transferred later that year to the squadron assigned to prevent any interference by the Greeks with Allied operations on the Salonica front. Charlemagne was placed in reserve and then disarmed in late 1917. She was condemned in 1920 and later sold for scrap in 1923.

Charlemagne was 117.7 metres (386 ft 2 in) long overall and had a beam of 20.3 metres (66 ft 7 in). At deep load, she had a draught of 7.4 metres (24 ft 3 in) forward and 8.4 metres (27 ft 7 in) aft. She displaced 11,275 metric tons (11,097 long tons) at deep load. Her crew consisted of 727 officers and enlisted men.

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