FR Courbet

Navy	The French Navy
Type	Battleship
Class	Courbet
Pennant
Built by	Arsenal de Brest (Brest, France)
Ordered
Laid down	1 Sep 1910
Launched	23 Sep 1911
Commissioned	19 Nov 1913
End service	9 Jun 1944
History	Used as a training ship before the war. Seized by the Royal Navy on 3 July 1940 while at Portsmouth. Used as a Anti-Aircraft battery by the British. Disarmed in April 1941. Later transferred to the Free-French Navy and used as a depot ship. Expended as part of the Normandy breakwater on 9 June 1944. The wreck lies in position 49.18.37N, 00.17.13W.

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