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French battleship Brennus

Index French battleship Brennus

Brennus was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the late 19th century. [1]

41 relations: Armored cruiser, Beam (nautical), Belt armor, Brennus, Brennus (4th century BC), Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893, Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891, Cape St. Vincent, Casemate, Charles Martel-class ironclad, Compound armour, Compound steam engine, Conning tower, Deck (ship), Draft (hull), English Channel, Figurehead (object), Fitting-out, Flagship, French battleship Charles Martel, French destroyer Framée, French ironclad Marceau, French ironclad Neptune, French Navy, Gauls, Gun turret, Ironclad warship, Length between perpendiculars, List of boiler types, by manufacturer, Lorient, Naval ram, Navy List, Pre-dreadnought battleship, QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss, Steam engine, Superstructure, Théophile Aube, The Naval Annual, Torpedo tube, Water-tube boiler, World War I.

Armored cruiser

The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point as measured at the ship's nominal waterline.

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Belt armor

Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers.

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Brennus

Brennus or Brennos (Gaulish: Brano "raven") is the name of two Gaulish chieftains, famous in ancient history.

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Brennus (4th century BC)

Brennus (or Brennos) was a chieftain of the Senones.

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Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893

Railroad model, 1916. The Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893 was a medium-caliber naval gun used as the secondary armament of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and armoured cruisers during World War I. It was used as railway artillery in both World Wars and as coastal artillery in World War II.

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Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891

The Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 & Modèle 1902 were a family of widely used naval guns of the French Navy that were also used by the Ottoman Navy during World War I. Guns removed from decommissioned ships also saw use as coastal artillery and as fortress guns in the Maginot Line fortifications during World War II.

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Cape St. Vincent

Cape St.

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Casemate

A casemate, sometimes erroneously rendered casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired.

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Charles Martel-class ironclad

Charles Martel and Brennus were two French ironclad battleships laid down in 1881–85, but cancelled in 1886, at an early stage of construction.

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Compound armour

Compound armour was a type of armour used on warships in the 1880s, developed in response to the emergence of armor-piercing shells and the continual need for reliable protection with the increasing size in naval ordnance.

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Compound steam engine

A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.

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Conning tower

A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armored, from which an officer can conn the vessel, i.e., give directions to the helmsman.

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Deck (ship)

A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Figurehead (object)

A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the prow of ships, generally of a design related to the name or role of a ship.

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Fitting-out

Fitting-out, or "outfitting”, is the process in shipbuilding that follows the float-out of a vessel and precedes sea trials.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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French battleship Charles Martel

Charles Martel was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the 1890s.

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French destroyer Framée

Framée was the name ship of her class of four destroyers built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.

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French ironclad Marceau

Marceau was an ironclad turret ship built for the French Navy during the 1880s, the lead ship of her class.

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French ironclad Neptune

Neptune was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy.

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French Navy

The French Navy (Marine Nationale), informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces.

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Gauls

The Gauls were Celtic people inhabiting Gaul in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD).

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Gun turret

A gun turret is a location from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility, and some cone of fire.

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.

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Length between perpendiculars

Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the waterline from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the sternpost, or main stern perpendicular member.

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List of boiler types, by manufacturer

There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (French "commune") and seaport in the Morbihan "department" of Brittany in North-Western France.

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Naval ram

A ram was a weapon carried by varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity.

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Navy List

A Navy List or Naval Register is an official list of naval officers, their ranks and seniority, the ships which they command or to which they are appointed, etc., that is published by the government or naval authorities of a country.

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Pre-dreadnought battleship

Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late 1880s and 1905, before the launch of.

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QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss

The QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss or in French use Canon Hotchkiss à tir rapide de 47 mm were a family of long-lived light naval guns introduced in 1886 to defend against new, small and fast vessels such as torpedo boats and later submarines.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.

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Théophile Aube

Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube (22 November 1826, Toulon, Var – 31 December 1890, Toulon) was a French admiral, who held several important governmental positions during the Third Republic.

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The Naval Annual

The Naval Annual was a book that sought to bring together a large amount of information on naval subjects, which had previously been obtainable only by consulting numerous publications and chiefly from foreign sources.

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Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.

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Water-tube boiler

A high pressure watertube boiler (also spelled water-tube and water tube) is a type of boiler in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by the fire.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Brennus

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