Category: WW1 French Navy

French Navy Pre-Dreadnought Battleship (1898-1907) Iéna was ordered in April 1897, and completed in 1902, based on the relatively successful…

France (1894-1900) Charlemagne, Saint Louis, Gaulois The Charlemagne class Battleships were three French “pre-dreadnoughts” ordered in 1894 over a new…

WW1 French Battleships France, 40 Battleships (1888-1917) The Design of French Battleships France invented the concept of sea going ironclad…

France (1881-90) – France’s ‘Grand Hotel’ The Hoche is now as then, the supreme ugly ducking in the nest, a…

WW1 French Cruisers France (1870-1912) – About 60 cruisers The armoured cruiser Condé, from the Gloire class, seen from the…

France (1899) – France’s strangest pre-dreadnought Background The French Navy was under the influence of the ‘Jeune Ecole‘ (‘Young School’)…

WW1 French Escorts France (1893) French ASW warfare during the great war Because of the considerable maritime traffic amount between…

WW1 French Submarines About 80 submersibles 1865-1919 Introduction As a matter of fact, submarines like aviation had many fathers. Although…

Armoured Cruiser Dupuy de Lôme (1890) France (1890) – Armoured Cruiser The cruiser Dupuy de Lôme was not only the…

WW1 French Destroyers France (1899-1918), about 90 destroyers Foreworld After having turned hundreds of torpedo boats in two decades under…