French battleship Jean Bart (1911)

Jean Bart in 1914
History
France
Name:	Jean Bart
Namesake:	Jean Bart
Awarded:	11 August 1910
Builder:	Arsenal de Brest, Brest
Laid down:	15 November 1910
Launched:	23 September 1911
Completed:	19 November 1913
Renamed:	Océan 1936
Reclassified:	disarmed and became a school ship in 1936
Captured:	27 November 1942 by Germany 28 August 1944 by the Allies
Fate:	Scrapped beginning 14 December 1945
General characteristics
Class and type:	Courbet-class battleship
Displacement:	23,475 tonnes (23,104 long tons) (standard) 25,579 tonnes (25,175 long tons) (full load)
Length:	166 m (544 ft 7 in)
Beam:	27 m (88 ft 7 in)
Draught:	9.04 m (29 ft 8 in) at normal load
Installed power:	28,000 shp (20,880 kW)
Propulsion:	4-shaft Parsons steam turbines, 24 boilers
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (trials)
Endurance:	4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	1115–1187
Armament:	6 × 2 - 305 mm (12 in) Mle 1910 guns 22 × 1 - 138 mm (5.4 in) Mle 1910 guns 4 × 1 - 47-millimetre (1.9 in) guns 4 × 450-millimetre (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Waterline belt: 180–270 mm (7.1–10.6 in) Deck: 30–70 mm (1.2–2.8 in) Turrets: 290–250 mm (11.4–9.8 in) Barbettes: 280 mm (11 in) Conning tower: 300 mm (11.8 in)

Jean Bart was the second ship of the Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. She was completed before World War I as part of the 1910 naval building programme. She spent the war in the Mediterranean and helped to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser Zenta on 16 August 1914. She spent most of the rest of 1914 providing gunfire support for the Montenegrin Army until she was torpedoed by the submarine U-12 on 21 December. Even with three compartments flooded, she was able to steam to Malta on her own for repairs that required three and a half months. Upon her return she spent the remainder of the war participating in the Otranto Barrage, in the Adriatic.

After the end of World War I she and her sister ship France were sent to the Black Sea to support Allied troops in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Jean Bart's crew mutinied out of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, but the mutiny was put down and she returned to the Mediterranean in 1920. She was partially modernized twice during the 1920s, but was deemed in too poor condition to be refitted again in the 1930s. Therefore, she was renamed Océan, disarmed and hulked in 1936 and became a harbour training ship in Toulon. The Germans captured her intact when they occupied Toulon in 1942 and used her for testing large shaped charge warheads. She was sunk by Allied bombing in 1944, but was raised and scrapped in 1945.

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