Jean Bart

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Richelieu
Builder:
Ateliers et Chantiers de La Loire
St. Nazaire, France
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
March 6, 1940
Keel Laid:
December 12, 1936
Completed:
May 1, 1955
Fate:
Scrapped in Japan 1969.
Notes
Jean Bart sailed from St. Nazaire while only 77% complete in advance of the German
occupation of France, she arrived in Casablanca, Morocco on June 22, 1940 and remained
in that port incomplete until after the war.


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Page published Dec. 12, 2007