Lyon-class battleship
The Lyon class was a set of battleships planned for the French Navy in 1913. The class was to have comprised four ships, named Lyon, Lille, Duquesne, and Tourville. Construction on the Lyons was cancelled due to the August 1914 outbreak of World War I, before any of the ships were laid down.
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The Lyon class was a set of battleships planned for the French Navy in 1913, with construction scheduled to begin in 1915. The class was to have comprised four ships, named Lyon, Lille, Duquesne, and Tourville. The Lyon class’ design was an improvement on the previous Normandie class, utilizing a fourth quadruple-gun turret to mount a total of sixteen 34 cm guns. Construction on the Lyons was cancelled due to the August 1914 outbreak of World War I, before any of the ships were laid down. The French government mobilized reserve forces in July, a month before the conflict, and redirected their industrial weapons and munition orders from the army to the navy. In light of such constraints, the navy decided that only those ships that could be completed quickly would be worked upon. The ships would have been 190m long between perpendiculars and 194m 5m long overall. They would have had a beam of 29m and a draft of 8 to 9 meters.
The first two were named for cities in France, and the latter pair honored the French admirals Abraham Duquezne and Anne Hilarion de Tourville, who were both killed in action during the First World War. The design staff submitted several proposals for the new battleships, with displacements ranging from 27,000 metric tons to 29,000 t. In 1913, the Navy authorized a fourth class of battleship, what was to be the Lyon class, and scheduled their construction for 1915. Their displacement was estimated at 29,600 metric tons. Their propulsion system had not been settled by the time the class was cancelled by the end of the war. The designers also briefly considered a ship armed with twenty 30. 5 cm guns in quadruple turrets, but the decrease in gun caliber was deemed to be a step in the wrong direction and it was quickly rejected.
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