French battleship Condorcet
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Condorcet was one of the six Danton-class semi-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. When World War I began in August 1914, she unsuccessfully searched for the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau in the Western and Central Mediterranean. Later that month, the ship participated in the Battle of Antivari in the Adriatic Sea and helped to sink an Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser. Condorcet spent most of the rest of the war blockading the Straits of Otranto and the Dardanelles to keep German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish warships bottled up.
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Name | Condorcet |
Namesake | Marquis de Condorcet |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire |
Laid down | 23 August 1907 |
Launched | 20 April 1909 |
Commissioned | 25 July 1911 |
Reclassified | as training ship, 1925 |
Stricken | 1931 |
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Class and type | Danton-class semi-dreadnought battleship |
Displacement | 18,754 t (18,458 long tons) (normal) |
Length | 146.6 m (481 ft) (o/a) |
Beam | 25.8 m (84 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 8.44 m (27 ft 8 in) |
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Propulsion | 4 shafts; 4 steam turbines |
Speed | 19.25 knots (35.7 km/h; 22.2 mph) |
Complement | 25 officers and 831 enlisted men |
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After the war, she was modernized in 1923–1925 and subsequently became a training ship. In 1931, the ship was converted into an accommodation hulk. Condorcet was captured intact when the Germans occupied Vichy France in November 1942 and was used by them to house sailors of their navy (Kriegsmarine). She was badly damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, but was later raised and scrapped by 1949.