Conquérante-class battlecruiser

Class overview
Operators:	Sieuxerrian Navy
Preceded by:	République class
Succeeded by:	Lafayette class
Built:	1910–1911
In commission:	1912–19XX
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Cancelled:	2
Retired:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Battlecruiser
Displacement:	28,500 t (28,000 long tons) (normal) 30,400 t (29,900 long tons) (full load)
Length:	216.5 m (710 ft)
Beam:	27 m (89 ft)
Draught:	8.75 m (28.7 ft) (normal) 9.22 m (30.2 ft)
Installed power:	44 Belleville boilers, 70,000 shp (52,000 kW)
Propulsion:	4 shafts; 4 direct-drive triple expansion engines
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range:	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	1,150
Armament:	4 × twin 340 mm (13.4") guns 12 × single 138 mm (5.4") guns 4 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 250 mm (9.8 in) Decks: 50 mm (2.0 in) Barbettes: 225 mm (8.9 in) Turrets: 225 mm (8.9 in) Conning tower: 250 mm (9.8 in) Bulkheads: 75 mm (3.0 in)

The Conquérante class was a class of battlecruisers built for the Sieuxerrian Navy. The ships came as a direct response to a number of increasingly larger and more capable battleship and battlecruiser designs that were being built or had already been commissioned by the late 1900s. The ships were for a period of time the largest and heaviest capital ships fielded by any navy in the world.

While certainly larger with equal main armament and superior secondary armament to any capital ship of the time, as well as having thicker armor than the Lion class battlecruisers (Which the Conquérantes had been designed to directly compete against), she suffered greatly from her use of coal-fired triple expansion engines as opposed to the steam turbines that virtually every other nation had been using since the mid-1900s. This would mean that the fastest trials speed any ship of the class would reach would be 27 knots, with regular service speed not exceeding more than 26 knots. This meant that the class would either be just on par if not slower than ships she was supposed to be a response to. As well, the Conquérantes received the largest and most complex VTE engines Sieuxerr had ever fielded, and these ended up being relatively finicky and prone to mechanical issues later in life.

Ships

Ship	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Conquérant		1910	1911	1912
Accusateur
Arbitre
Belliqueux