French battleship Liberté (1905)
- French battleship Liberté (1905)
The "Liberté" was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy
The "Liberté" was commanded by "capitaine de vaisseau" Louis Jaurès.
On 25 September 1911, as the "Liberté" was moored in Toulon harbour, an accidental explosion at the bow at starboard started a fire in the 194 mm magazines, which quickly spread to the rest of the ship, in spite of the efforts of the crew and attempts at flooding the magazines. At 5:53 PM, the main magazines detonated, destroying the ship and killing 200 of her crew. People on the neighbouring ships and in the port were also killed and maimed, yielding a total count of around 300 killed.
The loss hit the French opinion particularly harshly because of the high human toll, of the large military value of the "Liberté", and because it was the latest of a long series of accidental fires due to chemical instability of the ammunition, which had culminated four years earlier with the explosion of the "Iéna".
The wreck was raised on 25 February 1925 and scrapped.
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