![]() ![]() Tier V French Battleship Bretagneīretagne will be a regular Tier V battleship, all stats are listed without crew and upgrade modifiers, and are subject to change before the final release. The wreck was eventually raised in 1952 and broken up for scrap. Fearful that the Germans would seize the French Navy, the British Royal Navy attacked the ships at Mers-el-Kébir in the attack Bretagne was hit badly and exploded, killing the majority of her crew. Bretagne escorted convoys after the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, and was stationed in Mers-el-Kébir when France surrendered on 22 June 1940. She participated in non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War. She remained in service during the 1920s and 1930s, while her sisters were placed in reserve. During World War I, she was stationed at Corfu to prevent the Austro-Hungarian fleet from leaving the Adriatic Sea, but she saw no action. Like her prototype, the ship boasted a high speed and very good torpedo protection. A battleship design developed on the basis of the very successful Richelieu class, which received improved AA capabilities and had the main turrets placed in the ships aft and forward ends. ![]() ![]() Tier V French Battleship Bretagneīretagne spent the bulk of her career in the French Mediterranean Squadron. Gascogne French premium Tier VIII battleship. She was named in honour of the French region of Brittany, and was armed with a main battery of ten 340 mm (13 in) guns. The ship was laid down in July 1912 at the Arsenal de Brest, launched in April 1913, and commissioned into the fleet in February 1916, after the outbreak of World War I. Bretagne was a battleship of the French Navy built in the 1910s, and the lead ship of her class she had two sister ships, Provence and Lorraine. ![]()
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