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|align="center" colspan="2"|'''''Suffren'''''
{{ShipCareer|fullname=''Suffren'' (1899)|fate2=Sunk by ''U-52''
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|comm=3 Feb, 1904
!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: #0055A4;"| Career
|cat=PreDreadnought
!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: #0055A4"| Details
|launch=25 Jul, 1899
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|builder=Brest Naval Dockyard
|Builder:
|type=pre-dreadnought
|Brest Naval Dockyard
|fate=Sunk
|-
|order=21 Apr, 1898
|Ordered:
|chain=Battleships
|21 April, 1898
|name=Suffren
|-
|laid=5 Jan, 1899
|Laid down:
|nat=FR
|5 January, 1899
|pend=
|-
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|Launched:
 
|25 July, 1899
|-
|Commissioned:
|3 February, 1904
|-
|Lost:
|26 November, 1916
|-
|Fate:
|Sunk by ''U-52''
|-
!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: #0055A4 no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
|-
|Displacement (normal):
|12,750 tons
|-
|Length:
|422.5 feet
|-
|Beam:
|70 feet
|-
|Draught:
|28.25 feet
|-
|Propulsion:
|3 Shaft Triple Expansion, 16,000 ihp.  20 Niclausse boilers
|-
|Speed:
|16 knots
|-
|Range:
|
|-
|Complement:
|730
|-
|Armament:
|
*4 × B.L. 305 mm/40 (12") Model 1893/1896 guns in two-gun mountings
*6 × B.L. 164.7 mm/45 (6.5") Models 1893 and 1896 guns on single mountings
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 21:19, 23 September 2012

Suffren (1899)
Builder: Brest Naval Dockyard
Ordered: 21 Apr, 1898
Laid down: 5 Jan, 1899
Launched: 25 Jul, 1899
Commissioned: 3 Feb, 1904
Sunk:
Fate: Sunk by U-52


Footnotes

Bibliography

  • Caresse, Philippe (2010). "The Drama of the Battleship Suffren". in Jordan, John; Dent, Stephen. Warship 2010. London: Conway. pp. 9-26. ISBN 978-1-84486-110-1.


Pre-dreadnought Suffren
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