![]() They nevertheless served as front-line units in the French fleet for most of their careers, well into World War I. They also had a much more effective armor protection arrangement that remedied the tendency of earlier battleships to lose stability from relatively minor damage.īoth ships entered service with the fleet in 1907, after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought had been commissioned into the Royal Navy and made all existing battleships obsolescent. They carried a similar offensive armament of four 305 mm (12 in) guns and eighteen 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, though most of the 164 mm guns were now mounted in more flexible gun turrets rather than in casemates. République and Patrie, designed by Louis-Émile Bertin, were a significant improvement over previous French battleships. The French program called for six new battleships the last four became the very similar Liberté class. They were ordered as part of a naval expansion program directed at countering German warship construction authorized by the German Naval Law of 1898. ![]() ![]() The République class consisted of a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships- République, the lead ship, and Patrie-built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. ![]()
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