French battleship Mirabeau
Mirabeau replacing one gun in 1919
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| Name: | Mirabeau |
| Namesake: | Honoré Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau |
| Builder: | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Laid down: | 4 May 1908 |
| Launched: | 28 October 1909 |
| Completed: | 1 August 1911 |
| Reclassified: | As accommodation hulk, April 1919 |
| Struck: | 27 October 1921 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1928 |
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| Class and type: | Danton class semi-dreadnought battleship |
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| Length: | 144.9 m (475 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 25.8 m (84 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 9.2 m (30 ft 2 in) |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement: | 681 |
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Mirabeau was one of the six Danton class semi-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy (armée navale) in the first decade of the twentieth century. The ship spent most of World War I blockading the Straits of Otranto and the Dardanelles to prevent German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish warships from breaking out into the Mediterranean. She did, however, participate in the attempt to ensure Greek acquiescence to Allied operations in Macedonia in late 1916. Mirabeau briefly participated in the occupation of Constantinople after the end of the war and was deployed in the Black Sea in early 1919 during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. She ran aground in February 1919 off the coast of the Crimea and could not be refloated until some of her guns and armor were removed. After returning to France, the ship was used as an accommodation hulk until she was condemned in 1921. Mirabeau was later sold for scrap and broken up in 1928.
Although the Danton-class battleships were a significant improvement from the preceding Liberté class, they were outclassed by the advent of the dreadnought well before they were completed. They were not well liked by the French Navy, although their numerous rapid-firing guns were of some use in the Mediterranean.
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