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	French Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Frigate division of the French Navy in Toulon harbour
		The French navy is affectionately known as La Royale ("the Royal"), for its traditional attachment to the monarchy; it is to be noted that some of the greatest heroes of the First Republic were in the French Navy (Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, Robert Surcouf, Latouche-Tréville).
		French naval authorities were divided on their response: Amiral Jean de Laborde, the commander of the Forces de Haute Mer (the High Seas Fleet) advocated sailing to attack the Allied invasion fleet while others, such as the Vichy Secretary of the Navy, Contre-Amiral Auphan favoured joining the Allies.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/French_navy (1164 words)

	French battleship Richelieu (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richelieu was the name-ship of a class of French battleships of World War II.
		The quadruple 380 mm turrets of the Richelieu and the Jean Bart
		The Richelieu was further damaged in the battle when a 380 mm shell blew back and disabled two guns in the number 2 main turret: this was traced to use of the wrong type of propellant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_battleship_Richelieu (984 words)

	French battleship Jean Bart (1940) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Bart was a French battleship of World War II named for the seventeenth century seaman and corsair Jean Bart.
		Derived from the Dunkerque class, Jean Bart (and her sistership Richelieu) were designed to counter the threat of the Italian Navy.
		On November 8, 1942, the French fleet in Casablanca was attacked by American warships and airplanes from USS Ranger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_battleship_Jean_Bart (482 words)

	French battleship Richelieu
		The Richelieu was a French battleship of World War II named for the seventeenth century statesman Cardinal Richelieu.
		Richelieu was launched in january 1939 and first tries were done in the spring of 1940.
		Richelieu was further damaged in the battle when a defective 380mm shell put her n°2 main gun out of order.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Richelieu_battleship (342 words)

	"Richelieu" Operational History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richelieu ran her first trials on 14-15 January 1940 and on her acceptance trials in April achieved 30,11 knots with 123.080shp.
		In a duel between the French battleship and Barham on 24 September, the latter was hit by a 9.4in and a 6in shell, but there was an explosion at No.
		This was done because of the fact that British battleships of the King George V class were in the process of a refit programme, the interruption of which was undesirable, despite serious misgivings on the political front as to feelings aboard the French ship - she was reportedly very anti-Gaullist.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /Francja/Battleships/1940_Richelieu_class/_Richelieu_history.html (1102 words)

	Warship Pictures
		American battleship USS Oklahoma in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was struck by multiple torpedoes and capsized in 11 minutes.
		British battleship HMS King George V in 1941, the year she engaged the Bismarck (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
		French battleship FNS Richelieu, after refit in the U.S., in September 1943 (Official U.S. Navy photograph).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (811 words)

	Richelieu Class Battleship
		Richelieu has since rotated through the fleets as flagship, and was Vice Amiral Rochemont’s flag for the 3e Flotte and then the Combined Strike Fleet, a massive formation comprising 4 carrier ships (Richelieu, DeGaulle, Bayern and Graf Zeppelin), 17 line of battle ships and 21 frigates.
		On 16/9/2301 the Richelieu and her fleet sighted a much larger Kafer force in the Hochbaden system and Rochemont decided to withdraw, consolidating at BCB, only arriving to find that his lines of communication squadron had been defeated and the Kafers were in possession of the system.
		The French cruisers of DC-2 were first to contact the enemy as they were on patrol in the outer system when the enemy fleet entered it.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Equipment/SG/Richelieu/RichBB.htm (3806 words)

	Photos of "Richelieu" model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Richelieu class, with their 380 mm main artillery, were the most powerful battleships ever built in France.
		There was a gunnery duel between Richelieu and the British battleships HMS Barham: the Barham was hit twice by secondary batteries and the Richelieu was struck by two 15” shells, causing no serious damage.
		The Richelieu was further damaged in the battle when a 380 mm shell blew back and disabled two guns in the number 2 main turret: this was traced to use of the wrong type of propellant.
	buy-models.com /md/richelieu (963 words)

	TREATY BATTLESHIPS
		In that sense she was probably the best balanced of the fast battleships that actually tried to conform to the Treaty, as she carried 15in guns and was adequately protected against 15in gunfire.
		This negated the concept used in previous battleships, which was based on the deformation of relatively light and elastic bulkheads to contain the blast from an underwater explosion.
		All of the treaty battleships were heavily compromised to a greater or lessor extent by the need to at least nominally conform to the limitations of the various international naval arms limitation treaties.
	www.chuckhawks.com /treaty_battleships.htm (11483 words)

	THE BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU
		The Richelieu did not pose a hazard to the small fighters, light bombers, and rescue aircraft stationed at the RAF base even when the surface wind forced them to land to the west down the runway from the ship.
		The Free French Commander refused to allow anyone to approach his ship, and was unmoved by the RAF Commander's explanation of the risk involved should a B-29 have to land to the west or take off to the east.
		His B-29 crossed over the bow of the Richelieu in a steep turn so near to the ship, that the planes prop wash blasted a group of French sailors who were lounging in that area.
	www.40thbombgroup.org /matthews/Ira53.htm (1468 words)

	Richelieu and HMS Cumberland
		French battleship Richelieu and Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland during Operation Crimson in naval art print by Ivan Berryman.
		Richelieu and HMS Cumberland 1945 by Ivan Berryman
		The French battleship Richelieu with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland, shown during Operation Crimson after bombarding Sabang during July 1944.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1108.htm (799 words)

	World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - Mediterranean 1940 - Worldwar-2.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heavy units of the British Navy, code named Force H (Somerville), launch an attack (Operation Catapult) on the French fleet stationed at Mers-el-Kebir near Oran in Algeria, sinking the battleship Bretagne and heavily damaging the battleship Provence and the battlecruiser Dunkerque.
		A French naval squadron that has sought refuge at Alexandria is disarmed and interned by the British Navy.
		However, as soon as the Battleship Renown from Force H joined in, the Italians withdrew with 1 Cruiser and 2 Destroyers damaged, while the British suffered damage to the heavy cruiser HMS Berwick.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-at-sea/mediterranean/mediterranean-index-1940.htm (609 words)

	03. Amphibious Operations, 1940-44
		Following the capture of Narvik, Allied forces totalling 25,000 men are evacuated over the period 4th-8th from northern Norway, by which time King Haakon VII and his Government are on their way to Britain aboard heavy cruiser “Devonshire”.
		The evacuation of the BEF and some of the French troops trapped within the Dunkirk perimeter comes to an end on the 4th.
		Free French troops led by Gen de Gaulle are carried in ships escorted and supported by units of the Home Fleet and Force H under the command of Vice-Adm John Cunningham.
	www.naval-history.net /EBook01CampaignsAmphibious.htm (1438 words)

	THE COURBET CLASS
		The Bretagne was commissioned in September 1915. After the fall of France, she was taken by the Axis Powers and was blown out of the water and sunk on 3 July 1940, under heavy British fire at the Battle of Mers-el-kebir. She was raised and scrapped in 1954.
		The Richelieu class of battleships was the most powerful class of French battleships built. Only one of these ships managed to escape the fall of France and exact revenge upon its enemies.
		The Alsace class of battleships were, unfortunately, never built by the French. These ships were to have been more heavily armed and armored than the Richelieu class. But with the Germans taking over France, all plans to build this ship were halted.
	www.ussmissouri.com /Battleship-French.htm (536 words)

	USS Saratoga (CV-3)
		On 4 March, Saratoga departed Majuro with an escort of three destroyers, and sailed via Espiritu Santo[?]; Hobart, Tasmania; and Fremantle, Australia, to join the British Eastern Fleet[?] in the Indian Ocean.
		She rendezvoused at sea on 27 March with the British force, composed of carrier HMS Illustrious[?], and four battleships with escorts, and arrived with them at Trincomalee[?], Ceylon, on 31 March.
		On 12 April, the French battleship Richelieu[?] arrived, adding to the international flavor of the force.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Saratoga_(CV-3).html (2978 words)

	Fleetscale-Richelieu.
		The French battleship Richelieu was the first of three ships in the class – the third, Clemenceau was never completed as she was bombed by the U.S airforce in 1944.
		Richelieu was launched in January 1939 and spent most of her early wartime career attached to the British home fleet after her completion in 1943.
		As is usual with the Fleetscale, Richelieu's hull incorporates all the plating, hawse pipe and porthole detail and comes with a full sized plan.
	www.model-dockyard.com /fleetscale/richelieu.htm (167 words)

	Short History and Operational Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		class battleships, of which she has the same main armament arrangement and general design but she was dramatically improved as to the older sisters.
		In 1944, she was sent to the Far East, where she joined the allied forces that fought against the Imperial Japanese Navy and in that arena, she participated in actions against Surabaya, Sabang and the Andaman Islands.
		At the end of the U.S. refit, in September 1943, the battleship was painted with a U.S. Navy camouflage scheme, Measure 32, which consisted of four different types of grays.
	www.steelnavy.com /HiMoldRichelieuMatteini.htm (1085 words)

	Sinking of HMS Barham
		The third battleship sunk was the HMS Prince of Wales, the most powerful and modern warship in the Royal Navy when she was torpedoed and bombed by Japanese aircraft.
		Reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was damaged by the French battleship Richelieu during an attempt to capture Dakar on September 1940.
		The third battleship in line, the HMS Valiant was just 150 yards away, spotted the boat and immediately signaled the Barham and altered course to ram.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-barham.shtml (1456 words)

	Warships at Morocco-1942. Battleship duel betweeen USS Massachusetts and Jean Bart. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Battleship duel betweeen USS Massachusetts and Jean Bart.
		The USS Texas, BB-35, and USS New York, BB-34, were the other two battleships that participated as part of the Western Naval Task Force in the three pronged landing effort made by Task Force 34 on Morocco's Atlantic Coast on November 8, 1942.
		From the U.S. Navy's recognition slide set in WW II, this is the French battleship Richelieu, sister ship of the Jean Bart.
	www.daileyint.com /wwii/picwar2.htm (281 words)

	French 380 mm/45 (14.96") Model 1935
		During Richelieu's refit in the USA in 1943, three of her ruined guns were replaced by guns removed from Jean Bart's Turret I. It is apparently untrue that Richelieu's guns were rebored out to 15.0" (38.1 cm) during this time, as French records indicate that they remained at 380 mm (14.96").
		Sometime after this refit, new AP and HE shells designed to meet French specifications were specially built for her by the Crucible Steel Company of America.
		Richelieu had delay coils for the center guns of each turret fitted in 1947-1948 when a tighter dispersion pattern was desired in order to take the maximum advantage of radar fire control.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNFR_15-45_m1935.htm (1313 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Barham of the Queen Elizabeth class
		The battleship was modernized in 1930/1933, emerging with a single smokestack, enhanced protection against long-range gunfire, bombs and torpedoes, an improved anti-aircraft gun battery and an aircraft catapult.
		She was damaged by a torpedo from the German submarine U-30 on 28 December 1939, while at sea north of the Hebrides in position 58.47N, 08.05W.
		In September 1940, she engaged the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar, Senegal.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4058.html (464 words)

	Greatest Generation
		The Richelieu, which Churchill had covetously described to Smuts as “by no means permanently disabled,” opened fire through the gathering fog with her new 15-inch guns, as did the Dakar fortress batteries, which hit the cruiser Cumberland amidships and put her out of action.
		He had expected to find the French “deliriously happy” with the coming of the Americans to rescue France from the clutches of the German dictator, but instead he “found a cold shoulder.” The French were hoping that the German conditions would continue.
		The French were so overwhelmed over being liberated by the Americans from their German “slave masters” that they took up arms and fought with the Germans, both head-on and rearguard.
	www.barnesreview.org /html/greatest_generation.html (6445 words)

	Richelieu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		class battleships cannot be mistaken for anything else.
		The 95 per cent complete Richelieu was ordered to Dakar where she repelled British and Free French attacks in 1940.
		The quality of the resin casting and white metal on the Richelieu is awesome.
	www.steelnavy.com /Richelieu.htm (315 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Barham (1915-1941)
		During the First World War, she served in the North Sea with the Grand Fleet and after the end of that conflict was an active member of the British battle fleet.
		The battleship was modernized in 1931-34, emerging with a single smokestack, enhanced protection against long-range gunfire, bombs and torpedoes, an improved anti-aircraft gun battery and an aircraft catapult.
		Battleships Barham and Malaya and aircraft carrier Argus at sea during exercises near the Balearic Islands, circa the later 1920s.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-b/barham.htm (371 words)

	Battleships - French "Richelieu" Class
		The Richelieu class (Richelieu, Jean Bart, Clemenceau) was the successor of the Dunkerque class fast battleships with a stronger armament.
		The Richelieu had been completed in 1940 just before the occupation of France by the German army.
		The Jean Bart shouldn't be captured and was transferred to Casablanca where she was completed in 1955.
	homepages.fh-giessen.de /~hg6339/data/fr/battleships/1939_cbb_richelieu-class.htm (64 words)

	Timeline of the Kafer War
		Five Kafer Battleships (including their flagship) were destroyed at almost no cost to the Human forces, and the Kafers withdrew from Eta Bootis.
		The 50 or so French Foreign Legion Fighters continued to harry the Kafer vessels as they destroyed the orbital facilities, and commenced landing ground assault troops on Kimanjano.
		The French Battleship Napoleon, German Battlecruiser Guderian, two Destroyers, and three Frigates were added to Borodin's fleet.
	home.earthlink.net /~ad2300/kwtl.htm (2547 words)

	French Battleship and NY Skyline Photograph
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		Description: circa 1942: The French battleship 'Richelieu' is listing as she passes Brooklyn Bridge in New York's East River.
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	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire of the Dorsetshire class
		When the Admiral Graf Spee was discovered she was sent to the River Plate estuary, because the German pocket battleship was holed up at Montevideo for repairs after action with the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter.
		In June, she set out from Freetown to follow the French battleship Richelieu which left Dakar for Casablanca, however the French Admiral Darlan ordered the battleship back to Dakar.
		She rescued about 115 survivors after sinking the Bismarck but had to leave the scene in the middle of this when a U-boat sighting was reported.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1185.html (914 words)

	L'histoire navale du cuirassé francais Richelieu et Jean Bart
		L'histoire navale du cuirassé francais Richelieu et Jean Bart, depuis son chaloupe et les événements importants de sa vie.
		The Richelieu photographed at Dakar, West Africa in 1941 after her hasty departure from France in June 1940.
		He also served a while on the Free French Battleship Richelieu and has a impressive haul of medals.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /richelieu_class.htm (875 words)

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