"Courbet" ( fr. Courbet ) - French battleship . Head in the first series of French dreadnoughts - type "Courbet" . Named after Admiral Amed Courbet . The ship was built shortly before the First World War as part of the shipbuilding program of 1910. During the war he acted on the Mediterranean theater . August 16, 1914 took part in the sinking of the Austro-Hungarian cruiser " Zenta ". Courbet was based in Otranto , blocking the Austro-Hungarian fleet in the Adriatic , covering the light forces of the Otranto barrage .
| “Kurbe” battleship | |
|---|---|
| Courbet (1911) | |
 Courbet in 1924 | |
| Service | |
 France | |
| Ship class and type | “Kurbe” type battleship |
| Organization | French Navy |
| Manufacturer | Arsenal in Brest |
| Construction started | September 1, 1910 |
| Launched | March 3, 1911 |
| Commissioned | November 19, 1913 |
| Removed from the fleet | destroyed June 9, 1944 during Operation Neptune |
| Status | Disassembled |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | Standard - 23 475 tons, total - 25 579 t |
| Length | 166 m |
| Width | 27 m |
| Draft | 9.04 m |
| Booking | The main belt is 180 ... 270 mm; deck - 30 ... 70 mm; towers - 250 ... 290 mm (forehead) barbet - 280 mm cutting - 300 mm |
| Engines | 4 Pza Pzons , 24 steam boilers |
| Power | 28,000 liters with. (20.9 MW ) |
| Travel speed | 21 knots (39 km / h ) |
| Crew | 1115–1187 |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 6 × 2 - 305 mm / 45 22 × 1 - 138 mm 4 × 47 mm |
| Mine-torpedo armament | Four 450-mm torpedo tubes |
After the war was used as a stationary training ship. Despite several upgrades, by the beginning of World War II, the battleship was already obsolete. After the German invasion of France , on May 10, 1940, Courbet was hastily re-armed. He supported the Allied forces during the defense of Cherbourg in June 1940, and later that month made the transition to England . On July 3, before the start of Operation Catapult , the battleship was captured by British forces in Portsmouth and was transferred to Free France a week later. Until March 31, 1941, the "Courbet" was used as a warehouse and anti-aircraft vessel, after which the battleship was disarmed. In 1944, the engines and boilers of the ship were dismantled in order to prepare it for use as a breakwater during a landing operation in Normandy in June 1944.
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In Russian
- Aleksandrov Yu. I. Linear ships of the “Kurbe” type. 1909-1945 .. - SPb. : Publisher R. R. Munirov, 2007. - 84 p. - ISBN 978-598830-025-0 .
Foreign editions
- Dumas, Robert. The French Dreadnoughts: The 23,500 ton Courbet Class // Warship IX / John Roberts. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. - P. 154–164, 223–231. - ISBN 0-87021-984-7 .
- Dumas, Robert; Guiglini, Jean. Les cuirassés français de 23,500 tonnes. - Grenoble, France, 1980.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1980. - ISBN 0-87021-913-8 .
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985. - ISBN 0-87021-907-3 .
- Jordan, John; Dumas, Robert. French Battleships 1922–1956. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009. - ISBN 978-1-59114-416-8 .
- Whitley, MJ Battleships of World War II. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. - ISBN 1-55750-184-X .