![]() maybe not supposed to be? but at least somewhat identifiable as a single class of ships with cosmetic differences kind of like the British (1905) Tribal-class Destroyer but between the very basic minimum and maximum requirements, and all 4 ships (soon after 5- the 5th being Bouvet) being built by 4 different companies to 4 and a half (Bouvet being based on and an improvement of the Charles Martel) designs, they all had so many major differences in every metric that calling them a single class of ships is kind of a joke. The resulting general but very loose conditions set for construction being laid out to four different companies for the first stage of the program resulted in 5 pre-dreadnought battleships, of which Bouvet was the best (relatively speaking) of the heterogeneous mess of pronounced tumblehome design aficionados known as the " Flotte d'échantillons" (Fleet of Samples), ultimately becoming the basis of the Charlemagne-class PDBBs. and the 200 torpedo boats showing that Jeune Ecole was still an issue. ![]() wow this video is an experience.īouvet and her motley family of deformed and often outright hideous half-sisters were the result of the 1890s French Pre-Dreadnought Battleship development caused by the perpetual naval arms race with the British and their order for the 8-strong Royal Sovereign-class Pre-Dreadnoughts, resulting in the French parliament passing the 1890 Statut Naval, a massive and sweeping naval spending bill whose massive size and scope can be gleaned just from the 24 squadron battleships alone that were called for. plus a pretty good primer if you plan on doing French PDBBs yourself. ![]() goes over all french pre-dreadnoughts, but Bouvet is fairly early on. not as many, and initially with seemingly as much contempt for the idea of uniformity as possible.īattleship Bouvet - note the highly pronounced tumblehome, it was even more pronounced on 3 of 4 sister ships. The immediate french response after passing the 1890 Statut Naval was. ![]() This is a suggestion for the Pre-Dreadnought Bouvet. Laid down January 16th, 1893 Launched April 27th, 1896 Commissioned in June, 1898 Sunk on March 18th, 1915īouvet is a member of the " Flotte d'échantillons" (Fleet of Samples, also nicknamed the Patchwork Fleet), a series of 5 pre-dreadnoughts built as the first wave in a tremendous 1890 naval construction programme in reaction to a British 1889 naval programme showing that the UK could crank out state of the art battleships in high number with an order for 8 Royal Sovereign-class Battleships, rather than the usual duo or trio here and there.
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