French battleship Condorcet

Condorcet underway
History
France
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
Fate	Listed for sale, 14 December 1945 Breaking up completed by about 1949
General characteristics
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)
Installed power	26 Belleville boilers 22,500 PS (16,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 shafts; 4 steam turbines
Speed	19.25 knots (35.7 km/h; 22.2 mph)
Complement	25 officers and 831 enlisted men
Armament	2 × twin 305 mm (12 in) guns 6 × twin 240 mm (9.4 in) guns 16 × single 75 mm (3 in) guns 8 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 180–250 mm (7.1–9.8 in) Turrets: 260–340 mm (10.2–13.4 in) Conning tower: 266 mm (10.5 in)

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.

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.