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==Captains==
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Eugène Louis Gadaud|nick=Eugène Louis Gadaud|appt=1 Jan 1898|end=1 Jan 1899}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Eugène Louis Gadaud|nick=Eugène Louis Gadaud|appt=1 January, 1898|end=1 January, 1899}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Augustin Manuel Hubert Gaston Boué de Lapeyrère|nick=Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère|appt=1 Jan 1899{{Annuaire1900|p. 807}}|end=1 Jan 1901}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Augustin Manuel Hubert Gaston Boué de Lapeyrère|nick=Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère|appt=1 January, 1899{{Annuaire1900|p. 807}}|end=1 January, 1901}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Eugene Marie Le Leon|nick=Eugene Marie Le Leon|appt=1 Jan 1901|end=27 Jul 1901}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Eugène Marie Le Léon|nick=Eugène Marie Le Léon|appt=1 January, 1901|end=27 July, 1901}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Jean-Paul Ersatz|nick=Jean-Paul Ersatz|appt=28 Jul 1901|end=1 Jan 1903}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Jean-Paul Ersatz|nick=Jean-Paul Ersatz|appt=28 July, 1901|end=1 January, 1903}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Victor Louis Ferdinand François Sauvan|nick=Victor Sauvan|appt=1 Jan, 1903{{Annuaire1905|p. 789}}|end=15 Jan 1904}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Victor Louis Ferdinand François Sauvan|nick=Victor Sauvan|appt=1 January, 1903{{Annuaire1905|p. 789}}|end=15 January, 1904}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Louis Armand Donin De Rosiere|nick=Louis Armand Donin De Rosiere|appt=15 Jan 1904|end=15 Mar 1904}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Louis Armand Donin de Rosière|nick=Louis Armand Donin de Rosière|appt=15 January, 1904|end=15 March, 1904}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Alphonse Guillou|nick=Alphonse Guillou|appt=15 Mar 1904{{Annuaire1906|p. 778}}|end=1 Jan 1908}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Alphonse Guillou|nick=Alphonse Guillou|appt=15 March, 1904{{Annuaire1906|p. 778}}|end=1 January, 1908}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Pierre Paul Alphonse Lecuve|nick=Pierre Paul Alphonse Lecuve|appt=1 Jan 1908|end=1 Oct 1908}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Pierre Paul Alphonse Lecuve|nick=Pierre Paul Alphonse Lecuve|appt=1 January, 1908|end=1 October, 1908}}
{{Tenure|rank=Capitaine de vaisseau|name=Louis Ernest Sagot-Duvauroux|nick=Louis Ernest Sagot-Duvauroux|appt=1 Oct 1908|end=12 Mar 1910}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptFR}}|name=Louis Ernest Sagot-Duvauroux|nick=Louis Ernest Sagot-Duvauroux|appt=1 October, 1908|end=12 March, 1910}}
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Revision as of 09:03, 18 March 2019

Brennus (1891)
Builder: Arsenal de Lorient[1]
Ordered: 1888 Programme[2]
Laid down: 12 January, 1889
Launched: 17 October, 1891[3]
Completed: 1896[4]
Commissioned: 16 December, 1896
Stricken: 1919[5]
Sold: 1922[6]
Fate: Broken up
Brennus was a pre-dreadnought battleship completed for the French Navy in 1896.

Construction

Brennus was designed and built without a ram in her bow.[7]

Service

Although still on the Navy List in August 1914, Brennus was considered too old for mobilization, and she remained inactive throughout the war.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed[11]

  • Three 340mm/42 caliber Modèle 1887 rifled guns
  • Ten 164mm/45 caliber Modèle 1893 quick-firing guns
  • Four 65mm guns
  • Fourteen 47mm Modèle 1885 Hotchkiss guns
  • Eight 37mm guns
  • Four 460mm torpedo tubes

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 292.
  2. Brassey's Naval Annual 1887. p. 332.
  3. Brassey's Naval Annual 1892. p. 14.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 292.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 191.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 191.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 292.
  8. Annuaire de la Marine 1900. p. 807.
  9. Annuaire de la Marine 1905. p. 789.
  10. Annuaire de la Marine 1906. p. 778.
  11. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 292.

Bibliography

  • Lord Brassey ed. (1887). The Naval Annual, 1886. Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co.
  • Brassey, T. A. ed. (1892). The Naval Annual, 1892. Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co.
  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


Pre-dreadnought Brennus
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