Lorraine

Lorraine

Lorraine

Description

Lorraine was a Bretagne-class battleship of the French fleet, launched in 1913 and named after the French region of Lorraine. She was considered, like her sister ships, a super-dreadnought, but only thanks to the calibre of her guns. Due to the constraints of French shipyards, her length and displacement remained almost unchanged compared to her predecessors of the Courbet class.

She spent most of her service in the Mediterranean. In World War I, she was stationed in the port of Corfu, successfully preventing the Austro-Hungarian fleet from leaving the Adriatic Sea without firing a shot. In the 1920s and 1930s, she underwent a number of refits, one of which removed her central battery, replacing it with additional anti-air armament. With the outbreak of World War II, she carried a shipment of French gold to Bermuda, then returned to the Mediterranean. With the French surrender, she was interned by the British in the port of Alexandria. By the end of 1942, she was transferred to the Free French Navy, and participated in the Allied invasion of Provence and the siege of La Rochelle. After the war, she was used as a stationary gunnery training ship, then barracks ship, and finally was sold to a shipbreaking company in 1954.

The Lorraine was introduced in Update "La Royale" in her 1944 refit. She is characterised by low mobility and mediocre protection, but has good anti-air defence and powerful main guns.

General info

Survivability and armour

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Mobility

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Mobility Characteristics
Game Mode	Upgrade Status	Maximum Speed (km/h)		Turn Time (s)	Turn Radius (m)
		Forward	Reverse
AB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded
RB/SB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded

Armament

Primary armament

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Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		1,000 m	2,500 m	5,000 m	7,500 m	10,000 m	15,000 m
OEA Mle 1926 HE	HE	68	68	68	68	68	68
OPF Mle 1912 APC	APC	472	424	355	301	258	203
OPF Mle 1921 APCBC	APCBC	493	457	403	359	321	267

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (s)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
OEA Mle 1926 HE	HE	855	382	0	0.1	34.4	79°	80°	81°
OPF Mle 1912 APC	APC	795	540	0.025	20	24.18	48°	63°	71°
OPF Mle 1921 APCBC	APCBC	794	555	0.025	20	24.18	48°	63°	71°

Secondary armament

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Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		1,000 m	2,500 m	5,000 m	7,500 m	10,000 m	15,000 m
OEA Mle 1919 HE	HE	36	36	36	36	36	36
OPF Mle 1910 SAP	Common	67	49	34	34	34	34
OPF Mle 1921 SAPBC	SAPBC	73	62	47	35	34	34

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (s)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
OEA Mle 1919 HE	HE	840	31.5	0	0.1	3.41	79°	80°	81°
OPF Mle 1910 SAP	Common	830	36.5	0.05	6	2.93	47°	60°	65°
OPF Mle 1921 SAPBC	SAPBC	790	39.5	0.05	6	2.93	48°	63°	71°

Anti-aircraft armament

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

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Media

Skins

• Skins and camouflages for the Lorraine from live.warthunder.com.

See also

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External links

• [Devblog] Battleship Lorraine: the last French dreadnought

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