Excellent, sorry, missed this a few days back. Commissioned 12 Dec 1895, gunnery commissioning (probably) in part courtesy of my GGF, 7 days service on her, first week of her service in the RN. Looking good!

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The chemin to Charles Martel was paved with good intentions and logic

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The tumblehome was a reasonable avenue to pursue with what they knew and where they intended to operate, the weirdly mixed gunnery a sensible compromise given the constraints, and the incipient aesthetic disaster merely a matter of taste. The French clearly had none.

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Once you learn to follow the train of thought the French predreadnoughts are perfectly logical vessels. It's still a train they should have got off well before the destination, but...

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The 1889 Act, the Two Power Standard and the ships in the 1890-1904 period that directly followed - agree I’ve got my own project list from GGF, but the 3rd iteration of the Flying Squadron 1896 is a very interesting line up As for the French, I’ll leave that to @dreadships.bsky.social to comment

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