OddBall1st
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Here is the history of that ship and it really didn't do much.
Turret number two was not yet operational.
Career (France)
Name:Jean Bart
Namesake:Jean Bart
Laid downecember 1936
Launched:6 March 1940
Completed:1952
Commissioned:16 January 1949
Decommissioned:1961
Reclassified:1961 Gunnery School Tender
Struck:1969
Fate:Scrapped 24 June 1970
General characteristics
Class & type:Richelieu-class battleship
Displacement:35,000 tons standard[a] as designed
48,950 t at full load, in 1949
Length:248 m
Beam:35 m
Draught:9.60 m
Propulsion:four Parsons geared turbines,
six Indret «Sural» boilers
150,000 hp (112 MW)
Speed:32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:7671 nautical miles (14,207 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3181 nautical miles (5,891 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:911 men in 1950 (incomplete)
1,280 men during the Suez affair
Armament:8 × 380mm/45 Modèle 1935 gunsin quadruple mounts at bow
9 × 152 mm AA in 3 triple turrets at the aft till 1952–53
from 1953–54
- 8 × 40 mm AA
- 20 × 20 mm AA
Armour:Belt: 330 mm
- 24 × 100 mm in 12 twin mountings CAD Model 1945
- 28 × 57 mm in 14 twin mountings ACAD Model 1950
Upper armoured deck: 150–170 mm
Lower armoured deck: 40 mm
Her first salvo was a hit on BB59 and she turned General Patton Yellow before he even got started. (dye marker round hit near him on board his ship)
Anyway it was the start of freeing people who had every Right to live as they were established from those claiming to be a Superior Race. So what !!, they were Muslim.....It was a Start and we did well against the Superior Race in the Deserts.. The way most of the .."others" in the world see Muslim, They appear to make claim of ....Superior Race. If they don`t want that projected, they need to make that Start.