French Battleship Vérité
''Vérité'' was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the mid-1900s. She was the second member of the , which included three other vessels and was a derivative of the preceding , with the primary difference being the inclusion of a heavier secondary battery. ''Vérité'' carried a main battery of four guns, like the ''République'', but mounted ten guns for her secondary armament in place of the guns of the earlier vessels. Like many late pre-dreadnought designs, ''Vérité'' was completed after the revolutionary British battleship had entered service and rendered her obsolescent. Even before being commissioned into service with the fleet, ''Vérité'' carried President Armand Fallières on a tour of the Baltic Sea in 1908. After formally entering service, ''Vérité'' was assigned to the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, based in Toulon. She then embarked on the normal peacetime training routine of squadron and fleet maneuvers and cruises to ...
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Pre-dreadnought Battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of in 1906 and their classification as "pre-dreadnought" is retrospectively applied. In their day, they were simply known as "battleships" or else more rank-specific terms such as "first-class battleship" and so forth. The pre-dreadnought battleships were the pre-eminent warships of their time and replaced the ironclad warship, ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. In contrast to the multifarious development of ironclads in preceding decades, the 1890s saw navies worldwide start to build battleships to a common design as dozens of ships essentially followed the design of the Royal Navy's . Built from steel, protected by compound armour, compound, nickel steel or case-hardening, case-hardened steel armor, pre-dreadnought battleships were driven by coal-fired boilers powering triple-expansion steam engine, compou ...
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