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Courbet Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
Courbet	A	1st September 1910	23rd September 1911	19th November 1913
France	L	30th November 1911	7th November 1912	15th July 1914
Jean Bart / Ocean	A	15th November 1910	22nd September 1911	5th June 1913
Paris	F	10th November 1911	28th September 1912	1st August 1914

Builders:
A : Arsenal de Brest, Brest, France
F : F.C. de la Mediterranee, La Seyne, France
L : A.C. de la Loire, St. Nazaire, France

Dimensions:
544' 7" x 88' 7" x 29' / 166.00m x 27.00m x 8.80m

Displacement:
22189 tons std / 25579 tons max

Complement:
1108

Armament:
12 x 12"/45 Mod 10 guns in twin turrets
22 x 5.5"/55 Mod 10 guns in single mountings
4 x 47mm guns in single mountings
2 x 17.7" submerged torpedo tubes

Aircraft Facilities:
No aircraft were carried.

Armour:
Belt: 7.1" - 10.6"
C.T.: 10.6" - 11.8"
Turrets: 10"
Deck: 1.2" - 2.8"

Powerplant:
Twenty four Bellevile boilers were fitted with four Parsons steam turbines providing a total of 28000shp on four shafts.

Maximum speed was 20kts and maximum fuel load was 2706 tons coal and 310 tons oil. Range was 4200NM @ 10kts or 1140NM @ 20kts.

France and Paris were fitted with twenty four Niclausse boilers instead.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
None

Sonar:
None

Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous: