Bretagne

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Bretagne
Builder:
Arsenal de Brest
Brest, France
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
April 21, 1913
Keel Laid:
July 1, 1912
Completed:
September 1915
Fate:
Sunk July 3, 1940 by British ships of Force H, HMS Hood, HMS Resolution and HMS Barham at
the Battle of Mers-el-Kébir. Wreck scrapped in 1952.

Location: Mediterranean Sea, Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria.

997 crewmen killed.


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Page published Dec. 13, 2007