The French battleship Jean Bart was the third in the four ship class of France’s first dreadnought type battleships; launched 22 September 1911 and commissioned 5 June 1913. Jean Bart was partially modernized twice after WWI and by the 1930s was thought too decrepit to be refit along with her sister ships in the 1930s. In 1936, Jean Bart was disarmed and turned into a training ship and later into a barracks ship. She was renamed Ocean so that the name Jean Bart could be used for the second in the Richelieu Class battleships. On 27 November 1942, the day that the French fleet was scuttled, the invading German forces captured Ocean intact. The hulk was used in German experiments with shaped charge warheads. In 1944, Ocean was sunk by Allied bombers. The ship was raised and scrapped in 1945.
Ocean is depicted below, as she appeared in spring 1940 as a barracks ship. A sad fate for a warrior ship.
Courbet Class Battleship Ocean (ex Jean Bart) Spring 1942:
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Courbet Class Battleship Paris 1945.
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