The Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 was a medium-caliber naval gun used as the primary or secondary armament in both casemates and turrets of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and armored cruisers durin
A Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 on a center pivot mount
A twin turret aboard the French Cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau off Corfu.
Officers aboard the French Cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau.
The breech of a Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902.
Liberté-class battleship
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The Liberté class consisted of four pre-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. The class comprised Liberté, Justice, Vérité, and Démocratie. They were ordered as part of
Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 gun
…Cruiser Jules Michelet - The primary armament of this ship consisted of four guns mounted in twin turrets fore and aft. Liberté-class - The secondary armament of this class consisted of ten guns. Three were mounted in single turrets on each side of the ship and four were in casemates…
Liberté in New York City, September 1909
Line-drawing of the République class, the direct progenitors of the Liberté design
HMS King Edward VII, one of the foreign battleships that prompted the redesign of the latter four Républiques
Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual