![]() The ships were powered by three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam generated by 20 Belleville boilers. When serving as flagships, their crew numbered 750 men, but had 32 officers and 660 ratings as private ships. Their designed displacement was 11,287 tonnes (11,109 long tons), but they were overweight and displaced 11,415 tonnes (11,235 long tons) at normal load. At deep load, the ships had a draught of 7.4 metres (24 ft 3 in) forward and 8.4 metres (27 ft 7 in) aft. They were 117.7 metres (386 ft 2 in) long overall and had a maximum beam of 20.3 metres (66 ft 7 in). ![]() ![]() The Charlemagne-class ships were authorized in the 1892 Naval Program as smaller versions of the preceding Bouvet, albeit with an improved armament. ![]() Charlemagne was condemned in 1920 and later sold for scrap in 1923. The ship was stricken from the naval register in 1918. Charlemagne briefly served as a flagship before she was converted into a depot ship in mid-1917 and was partially disarmed later that year. The ship was transferred later that year to the squadron assigned to prevent any interference by the Greeks with Allied operations on the Salonica front. In 1915, she joined British ships in bombarding Ottoman fortifications. Charlemagne was ordered to the Dardanelles in November to guard against a sortie into the Mediterranean by the ex-German Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim. When World War I began in August 1914, she escorted Allied troop convoys in the Mediterranean for the first three months. Charlemagne and her sister ships rejoined the Northern Squadron in 1909 and the obsolete battleship became a gunnery training ship in 1913. Twice the ship participated in the occupation of the port of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, then owned by the Ottoman Empire, once as part of a French expedition and another as part of an international squadron. The battleship was initially assigned to the Northern Squadron ( Escadre du Nord) and was not transferred to the Mediterranean Squadron ( Escadre de la Méditerranée) until 1900. Completed in 1899, she spent the bulk of her career in the Mediterranean Sea. 11,415 t (11,235 long tons) (normal load)ģ shafts, 3 triple-expansion steam enginesĤ,000 miles (3,480 nmi) at 10 knots (19 km/h 12 mph)Ĭharlemagne was a predreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the mid-1890s, the name ship of her class.
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