 Illustration of Carnot fitting out, c. 1896
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Charles Martel |
| Succeeded by | Jauréguiberry |
| History | |
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| Name | Carnot |
| Namesake | Lazare Carnot and Marie François Sadi Carnot |
| Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
| Laid down | July 1891 |
| Launched | July 1894 |
| Commissioned | July 1897 |
| Fate | Broken up in 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 11,954 t (11,765 long tons; 13,177 short tons) |
| Length | 114 m (374 ft) |
| Beam | 21.4 m (70 ft) |
| Draft | 8.36 m (27.4 ft) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph) |
| Complement | 647 |
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Carnot was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy. She was laid down in July 1891, launched in July 1894, and completed in July 1897. She was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, along with Charles Martel, Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, and Masséna, which were ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign class. Like her half-sisters, she was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns in individual turrets. She had a top speed of 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph).
Carnot had a fairly uneventful career. She spent the majority of her service life in the Northern and Mediterranean Squadrons of the French fleet, where she participated in extensive, annual maneuvers. She was withdrawn from service by the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, and so did not see action during the conflict. She remained in the French Navy's inventory until 1922, when she was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap.