Bouvet
1898
(Hai 481)
- Class: Bouvet - 1 battleship of 1893
- Displacement: 12,007 tons
- Dimensions: 386ft 6in pp x 70ft 2in x 27ft 6in
- Machinery: 3-shaft vertical triple expansion, 15,000ihp = 18 knots
- Armor: Harvey nickel: main belt 16-8in, upper belt 4in, turrets 15in, bases 8in, secondary 4.7in, CT 12in
- Armament: 2-12"/50, 2-10.8"/45, 8-5.5"/45 QF, 8-3.9", 12-3pdr; 2-18in TT submerged
- Complement: 666
- Builder: Arsenal de Lorient
- Laid Down: 16 Jan 1893
- Launched: 27 Apr 1896
- Completed: Jun 1898
- Notes: Fifth member of the five "Flotte d'Echantillons." Assigned Aug 1914 to the Special Squadron for escort of transports from French North Africa and India. From Dec 1914 took part in the Dardanelles operations. On 18 March 1915 she was hit about 8 times by shells from the defending forts, and then struck a mine, causing her to capsize and sink in less than two minutes with her captain and about 660 of her crew.
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