French battleship Vérité
Vérité in the United States in 1909
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| Name: | Vérité |
| Namesake: | Truth |
| Laid down: | April 1903 |
| Launched: | 28 May 1907 |
| Commissioned: | June 1908 |
| Struck: | 1922 |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap |
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| Class and type: | Liberté-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 14,860 t (14,630 long tons; 16,380 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, 18,500 shp (13,800 kW) |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 739–769 |
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Vérité was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Liberté class built by the French Navy. She had three sister ships: Liberté, Justice, and Démocratie. Vérité was laid down in April 1903, launched in May 1907, and completed in June 1908, over a year after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought made ships like Vérité obsolete. She was armed with a main battery of four 305 mm (12.0 in) guns, compared to the ten guns of the same caliber mounted on Dreadnought.
Vérité took the French President on a goodwill trip to Russia in 1908 and visited America in September 1909. In September 1911, she was damaged by the explosion that destroyed her sister Liberté in Toulon. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she covered troop convoys from North Africa to France along with the rest of the French Mediterranean Fleet. She spent the rest of the war based at Corfu and later Mudros, without seeing any action at either location. After the end of the war, she was stricken from the naval register and broken up for scrap in 1922.
Vérité was laid down at the Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde shipyard in Bordeaux in April 1903, launched on 28 May 1907, and completed in June 1908, over a year after the radically innovative British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which rendered the pre-dreadnoughts like Vérité outdated before they were completed. 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 up to 14,489 metric tons (14,260 long tons; 15,971 short tons) at full load. The ship had a crew of between 739 and 769 officers and enlisted men. Vérité was powered by three vertical triple expansion engines with twenty-two Belleville boilers. They were rated at 18,500 indicated horsepower (13,800 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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