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Encyclopedia > Lyon class battleship
Lyon class Battleship

Class Overview
Type: Battleship
Name: Lyon
Number of ships: 4 (none built)
Preceded by: Planned: Normandie class battleship
Built: Bretagne class battleship
Succeeded by: Dunkerque class battleship
General characteristics
Displacement: 29 000 tonnes
Length: 193.5 metres
Beam: 29.35 metres
Draught: 8.8 metres
Propulsion: Vertical Triple Expansion engine
Speed: 21 knots
Range: 6,000 miles at 10 knots
Protection: Side: 300mm midship, 119-51mm ends

Deck: up to 63.5mm all together
Barbettes: 330mm
Turrets: 340mm face
The firepower of a battleship demonstrated by USS Iowa. ... The firepower of a battleship demonstrated by USS Iowa. ... The Normandie class battleships were ordered for the French Navy before the First World War. ... The Bretagne class were Dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy during the First World war. ... The Dunkerque class was a new type of warship of the French Navy, labelled as fast battleship. Not quite the size of a full battleship, they were designed to counter the threat of the German pocket battleships of the Deutschland class. ...

Conning Tower: 300mm
Armament: 16 340-millimetre guns in quadruple turrets

24 139-millimetre guns
48 47-millimetre AA guns
13.2 millimetre machine guns

450 millimetre torpedoes

The Lyon class was planned from 1914, but was cancelled in favour of the Dunkerque design, less costly and better adapted to counter the German "pocket battleships. No ship of the Lyon type was laid down. The Dunkerque class was a new type of warship of the French Navy, labelled as fast battleship. Not quite the size of a full battleship, they were designed to counter the threat of the German pocket battleships of the Deutschland class. ...


The ships were to be named Lyon, Duquesne, Lille and Tourville.

 

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