French Navy's Charlemagne class pre-dreadnought battleship
For other ships with the same name, see French ship Gaulois.
Gaulois
History
France
Name
Gaulois
Namesake
Gauls
Ordered
22 January 1895
Builder
Arsenal de Brest
Laid down
6 January 1896
Launched
6 October 1896
Completed
15 January 1899
Fate
Sunk by UB-47, 27 December 1916
General characteristics
Class and type
Charlemagne-class battleship
Displacement
11,260 t (11,080 long tons) (normal)
11,415 t (11,235 long tons) (deep load)
Length
117.7 m (386 ft 2 in)
Beam
20.26 m (66 ft 6 in)
Draught
8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Installed power
20 Belleville boilers
14,200 PS (10,400 kW)
Propulsion
3 × shafts, 3 × triple-expansion steam engines
Speed
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range
3,776 nautical miles (6,990 km; 4,350 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement
692
750 as flagship
Armament
2 × twin 305 mm (12 in) guns
10 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns
8 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns
20 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
2 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armour
Belt: 110–400 mm (4.3–15.7 in)
Decks: 40–70 mm (1.6–2.8 in)
Barbettes: 270 mm (10.6 in)
Turrets: 320 mm (12.6 in)
Gaulois was one of three Charlemagne-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the mid-1890s. Completed in 1899, she spent most of her career assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron (Escadre de la Méditerranée). The ship accidentally rammed two other French warships early in her career, although neither was seriously damaged, nor was Gaulois.
Following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Gaulois escorted troop convoys from French North Africa to France for a month and a half. She was ordered to the Dardanelles in November 1914 to guard against a sortie into the Mediterranean by the ex-German battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim. In 1915, Gaulois joined British ships in bombarding Ottoman fortifications. She was badly damaged during one such bombardment in March and had to beach herself to avoid sinking. She was refloated and sent to Toulon for permanent repairs. Gaulois returned to the Dardanelles and covered the Allied evacuation in January 1916. She was en route to the Dardanelles after a refit in France when she was torpedoed and sunk on 27 December by a German submarine; four crewmen were lost.
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