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Bouvet French Pre Dreadnaught Battleship. The
fifth ship is the Charles Martel type battleships. Yet differed with the hull
not being cut down to the main deck. Also having two smaller military masts.
The Bouvet was the best of the five battleships. As it had face-hardened
armour. Bouvet built aqt Lorient was laid down on the 16th January 1893
and launched on the 27th April 1896,. completed in June 1898. She serve
during world war one being sent to the Dardanelle's in 1915. On the
18th march the Bouvet was hit eight times form shells form the forts all
struck above the waterline. Her fore turret was put out of action =due
to the failure of the gas extraction apparatus. She then struck a 176 lb mine
which exploded below the starboard 10.8 inch turret and this caused the
Bouvet to Capsize and sink in under 2 minutes with the loss of around
660 crew. She was in poor condition and it is believed that a magazine
explosion probably caused the rapid sinking.
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SCALE
MRB-914
PRICE:
$ 25.00
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