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''Paris'' was the third ship of the s, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. She was completed before World War I as part of the 1911 naval building programme. She spent the war in the Mediterranean, spending most of 1914 providing gunfire support for the Montenegrin Army until her sister ship was torpedoed by the submarine on 21 December.〔 She spent the rest of the war providing cover for the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea. ''Paris'' supported French and Spanish troops in 1925 during the Third Rif War before becoming a school ship in 1931. She was modernized in three separate refits between the wars even though she was not deemed to be a first-class battleship. She remained in that role until the Battle of France, which began on 10 May 1940, after which she was hastily rearmed. She supported Allied troops in the defence of Le Havre during June until she was damaged by a German bomb, but she took refuge later that month in England. As part of Operation Catapult, she was seized in Plymouth by British forces on 3 July. She was used as a depot ship and barracks ship there by the Royal and Polish Navies for the rest of the war. Returned to the French in July 1945 she was towed to Brest the following month and used as a depot ship until she was stricken on 21 December 1955. ==Description== ''Paris'' was long overall. She had a beam of and at full load a draft of at the bow. She displaced at standard load and at full load.〔Dumas, p. 223〕 She proved to be rather wet in service as she was bow-heavy because her superimposed turrets were close to the bow.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 197〕 ''Paris'' had four propellers powered by four Parsons direct-drive steam turbines which were rated at . Twenty-four Belleville water-tube boilers provided steam for her turbines. These boilers were coal-burning with auxiliary oil sprayers.〔Whitley, p. 36〕 She had a designed speed of .〔 She carried up to of coal and of oil and could steam for at a speed of .〔 ''Paris''s main armament consisted of twelve 45-calibre guns were mounted in six twin gun turrets, with two turrets superimposed fore and aft, and one on each flank of the ship. For anti-torpedo boat defence she carried twenty-two guns, which were mounted in casemates. Four Modèle 1902 Hotchkiss guns were fitted, two on each beam. She was also armed with four submerged Modèle 1909 torpedo tubes with twelve torpedoes.〔 ''Paris''s waterline armoured belt extended well below the waterline as the French were concerned about protection from underwater hits. Her main armour was also thinner than that of her British or German counterparts, but covered more area. It was thick between the fore and aft turrets and tapered to towards the bow and stern. It extended below the normal waterline. Above the main belt was another belt, 180 mm thick, that covered the sides, and the secondary armament, up to the forecastle deck, deep, between the fore and aft turrets. The conning tower had armour thick. The main gun turrets had of armour on their faces, on their sides and roofs thick. Their barbettes had of armour. There was no anti-torpedo bulkhead although there was a longitudinal bulkhead abreast the machinery spaces that was used either as a coal bunker or left as a void.〔Whitley, p. 35〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French battleship Paris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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