French battleship Provence
- French battleship Provence
The "Provence" was a French Navy battleship of the "Bretagne" class named in honour of the French region of Provence.
Construction
She was built by Arsenal de Lorient, and her keel was laid on 1 May 1912. She was launched on 20 April 1913, and completed by June 1915, when she was commissioned.
Like her sister ships, the "Provence" was armed with a main armament of ten of the new 340 mm main guns from the cancelled "Normandie"-class battleships. The main guns were mounted two per turret; two centreline superfiring forward, two centreline superfiring aft and one amidships centreline turret that could fire to both sides.
Service
The "Provence" served in the Mediterranean with the two other Bretagne-class battleships during both World Wars. She was damaged by British naval gunfire at Mers-el-Kebir and beached to prevent flooding. After Mers-el-Kebir she made her way to Toulon where she was repaired, but was later sunk on 27 November 1942 during the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon to prevent her from falling into Nazi hands.
On 11 July 1943 the "Provence" was raised by the Germans, and her main 340 mm guns were removed and used as shore batteries. After D-Day in 1944 she was again scuttled for use as a blockship.
In April 1949 she was raised and finally scrapped.
Gallery
References
* [http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/ Haze Gray & Underway, Battleship Lists] (HTML) Accessed 10 August 2007.
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