French battleship République
Illustration of République
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| Name: | République |
| Namesake: | French Republic |
| Laid down: | December 1901 |
| Launched: | 4 September 1902 |
| Commissioned: | December 1906 |
| Struck: | 1921 |
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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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République was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the early 1900s. The lead ship of her class, she had only one sister ship: Patrie. The ship was built by the Arsenal de Brest, laid down in December 1901, launched in September 1902, and commissioned into the fleet 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 by the time she entered service.
République served in the Mediterranean Fleet for the duration of her career. In 1910 she was accidentally torpedoed by Patrie. She was moored near the battleship Liberté when the latter exploded accidentally in 1911, and was damaged by flying debris. 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. She was eventually stricken in 1921 and broken up for scrap thereafter.
République was laid down at the Arsenal de Brest in December 1901, launched on 4 September 1902, and completed in December 1906, at the same time as the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which rendered the pre-dreadnoughts like République outdated.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 14,605 metric tons (14,374 long tons; 16,099 short tons) at full load and 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 (13,420 kW) and provided a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph). Coal storage amounted to 1,800 t (1,770 long tons; 1,980 short tons).
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