French battleship Patrie
Patrie at her mooring
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| Name: | Patrie |
| Laid down: | 1 April 1902 |
| Launched: | 17 December 1903 |
| Commissioned: | December 1906 |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap, 1928 |
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| Class and type: | République-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 14,605 t (14,374 long tons; 16,099 short tons) |
| Length: | 133.81 m (439.0 ft) pp |
| Beam: | 24.26 m (79.6 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.41 m (27.6 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3 triple-expansion steam engines, 18,000 shp (13,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 766–825 |
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Patrie was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the early 1900s. She had one sister ship, République. Patrie was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard in April 1902, launched in December 1903, and completed three years later in December 1906, the same time as the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought. Armed with a main battery of four 305 mm (12.0 in) guns, she was outclassed by Dreadnought, which mounted ten guns of the same caliber, by the time she entered service.
Patrie served in the Mediterranean Fleet for the duration of her career. She accidentally torpedoed République during fleet maneuvers in 1910. After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she covered troop convoys from Algeria to France, and participated in the sinking of the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Zenta later that month. She spent the majority of the war in Corfu at the mouth of the Adriatic Sea, to keep the Austro-Hungarian fleet bottled up in the Adriatic. In May 1916, she shot down a German zeppelin off Salonica. The ship was eventually stricken in 1921 and broken up for scrap thereafter.
Patrie was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard on 1 April 1902, launched on 17 December 1903, and completed in December 1906, at the same time as the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which rendered the pre-dreadnoughts like Patrie outdated. The ship was 133.81 meters (439 ft 0 in) long between perpendiculars and had a beam of 24.26 m (79 ft 7 in) and a full-load draft of 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in). She displaced 14,900 metric tons (14,700 long tons; 16,400 short tons) at full load, slightly more than her sister République. She had a crew of between 766 and 825 officers and enlisted men. She was powered by three vertical triple expansion engines with twenty-four Niclausse boilers. They were rated at 18,000 indicated horsepower (13,000 kW) and provided a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph). Coal storage amounted to 1,800 t (1,800 long tons; 2,000 short tons).
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