Charles Martel was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the 1890s. Completed in 1897, she was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships ordered as part of the French
A postcard of Charles Martel underway before 1914
Brennus, c. 1894, which formed the basis for Charles Martel's design
Plan and profile of Charles Martel, showing the disposition of the ship's armament
A postcard of Charles Martel
Jauréguiberry was a pre-dreadnought battleship constructed for the French Navy in the 1890s. Built in response to a naval expansion program of the British Royal Navy, she was one of a group of five ro
French battleship Charles Martel
…same basic design parameters, though the individual architects were allowed to deviate from each other in other details. Like her half-sisters—Carnot, Jauréguiberry, Bouvet, and Masséna—she was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns. The ship had a top speed of 18 knots…
Jauréguiberry steaming at high speed, probably during her sea trials in 1896–1897
Right elevation and section, from Brassey's Naval Annual 1897
Line-drawing showing the arrangement and firing arcs of the ship's main battery
Jauréguiberry at Spithead in 1905