French battleship Jauréguiberry
Jauréguiberry was a pre-dreadnought battleship constructed for the French Navy in the 1890s. Built in response to a naval expansion program of the British Royal Navy, she was one of a group of five roughly similar battleships. The ship was armed with a mixed battery of 305 mm, 274 mm and 138 mm guns. She supported French troops during the Gallipoli Campaign, including during the landing at Cape Helles in April 1915. She was the first French battleship to use electric motors.
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Jauréguiberry was a pre-dreadnought battleship constructed for the French Navy in the 1890s. Built in response to a naval expansion program of the British Royal Navy, she was one of a group of five roughly similar battleships, including Masséna, Bouvet, Carnot, and Charles Martel. The ship was armed with a mixed battery of 305 mm, 274 mm and 138 mm guns. In peacetime the ship participated in routine training exercises and cruises in the Mediterranean Sea, primarily as part of the Mediterranean Squadron. She supported French troops during the Gallipoli Campaign, including during the landing at Cape Helles in April 1915, before she became guardship at Port Said from 1916 until the end of the war. Upon her return to France in 1919 she became an accommodation hulk until 1932, and she was sold for scrap in 1934. She was the first French battleship to use electric motors, and her half-batterys were generally disappointments in service; they suffered from stability, and generally from problems with the main guns. The design was influenced by the Capitán Prat, then under construction in France, which adopted twin-gun battery mountings for her secondary turrets to save space that would have been taken up by traditional casemate mountings. The battleship was the only one of the French battleships of the late 1890s to use the electric motors that Louis-Émile Bertin, Director of Construction of the Naval Construction in Paris, had introduced in the late 1880s and early 1900s.
It was the last battleship built by the French navy before the creation of the modern navy in the early 20th century, and the last to be scrapped in the mid-20th century. It is the only battleship of the 19th century to be named after a woman, who was a member of the staff of the First Lady of France, who died in a car accident in 1901. The name JauréGuiberry is now used to honor a woman who served in the French Army during the First World War, who served as a guard of honor for French troops in North Africa and India between 1914 and 1918. She is also the name of a French woman who was awarded the Order of Merit for her bravery in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Her name is also used as a tribute to the woman who died during the Second World War in the battle of Bougainville. She has been the subject of a number of books, including the best-selling book, “The Battle Ship of the World”, by Jean-Baptiste de la Seyne-sur-Mer, which was written by Amable Lagane, the director of naval construction at the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée shipyard in La Seyne. The French Navy ordered five battleships in the first year of the program, but only ordered five in the second year.
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