French battleship Brennus
Brennus was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Marine Nationale. Completed in 1896, she was a unique ironclad battleship, with a main battery of heavy guns mounted on the centerline. Brennus spent the majority of her service in the Mediterranean Squadron, and she served as its flagship early in her career. In 1900, she accidentally rammed and sank the destroyer Framée. She was decommissioned before the First World War began in August 1914 and was disarmed in 1915. Her hulk was stricken from the naval register in 1919 and was ultimately scrapped three years later.
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Brennus was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Marine Nationale. Completed in 1896, she was a unique ironclad battleship, with a main battery of heavy guns mounted on the centerline. She formed the basis for several subsequent designs, beginning with Charles Martel. Brennus spent the majority of her service in the Mediterranean Squadron, and she served as its flagship early in her career. In 1900, she accidentally rammed and sank the destroyer Framée. The ship had been decommissioned before the First World War began in August 1914 and was disarmed in 1915. Her hulk was stricken from the naval register in 1919 and was ultimately scrapped three years later. She was the last of the Magenta-class battleships to be built in the French Navy, and the first of a group of five similar battleships built to the same design specifications, though they reverted to the armament layout of the earlier Magentas which saw the main guns distributed in single turrets in a lozenge pattern. The ships were ordered in 1882 and 1885, but work was cancelled before much work had been done. In 1888, a second ship was ordered, but the design was re-designed to meet new requirements. The fact that the same slipway was used to build both vessels, and parts of the original were reused in the latter vessel has caused some to conflate the vessels. The second ship, ordered in 1888, was built in 1889 and commissioned in 1891.
She served as a training ship until the end of World War I in 1914, when she was stricken and scrapped. She is the only French battleship not to have been named after a single character in any of the major novels of Charles Ludwigsky and Jean-Baptiste Camille Holland. The first use of the Belleville boilers was on BrennUS, which was completed in 1896. She had a beam of 20. 4m and displaced 11,370 metric tons at deep load, after her reconstruction. Her hull was subdivided by 18 watertight bulkheads and she had a double bottom that extended over the full length of the hull except at the bow except for the bow at the top of her superstructure. Her metacentric height was 0.75m, calculated at 75m, with the barrels of her 7mm casemate being 164mm wide. She suffered from poor stability, largely a result of her massive superstructure that placed a great deal of weight on the ship. These problems were not fully solved by extensive reconstruction between 1893 and 1896, which contributed to a career that was very short and short with all her guns traversed to her starboard and her short funnels. Her first trial was conducted on 17 June 1893, and her entire crew mustered on the same side; the pair of funnels contributed to the problem, together with a pair of military funnels together with the hull together.
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