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French Vice-admiral Louis-René-Madeleine Le Vassor de La Touche, comte de Tréville
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This is Jean Bart as it would have looked configured for the role of Command Ship for the French nuclear testing program in the South Pacific. Her 125mm battery and several 100mm mounts have been removed. Her masts have been reconfigured as well as her bridge tower.

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French Vice-admiral Louis-René-Madeleine Le Vassor de La Touche, comte de Tréville
The original spelling of my last name is: LaTouche.

Okay I'll fix it later today

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The original spelling of my last name is: LaTouche.

Interesting. Would have been one expensive command ship though given the refit costs and operating costs.

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France is (seriously) considering A-Bombs/H-Bombs test in the French-Polynesia by spring 1962.
Immediately, the French navy proposed a command-ship for the future testing series (expected by 1965+).

This command-ship need to have a very long range (Brest to Tahiti), so only a cruiser or a battleship could have this role
(a option with a french-destroyer of the Surcouf class was secretly studied, for the "cheapest-option possible", maybe can be drawn one day by David )

Battleships:
- Richelieu: by 1962, this BB was too tired/worn-out.
- Jean Bart were more modern than the Richelieu by 1962-1966
Cruisers:
- Colbert was too recent (commissioned by 1959) to be converted to a secondary role.
- Cruisers of the Georges-Leygues class were too old/worn-out by early 1960s.
- The "De Grasse" cruiser was between Colbert & the "1930s-builts" Georges Leygues

So the French Navy studied various options between Jean Bart & De Grasse
The "De Grasse" cruiser won because he needed a smaller crew (760 crew VS 850/950 for the Jean-Bart), & this modernization might cost less

For the Jean Bart, you should know that:
- The French have never seriously considered removing boths quadruple 380mm turrets (it would be too expensive in manpower to retiring. By late 1950s this "removing" was considered "premature" by the French & by early 1960s the French prefers still maintain both turrets until the final scrapping of this ship, mainly for cost-reasons).

Great work, David! (Ignoring the very-much-over-the-top criticism from certain directions.)

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A very nice series, David!

what are you refering to with those over the top critisicm? just wondering......

anyways, is an update with correct GMLS in store for the missile conversion? or should I stop hoping for that

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Most impressive David

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