République-class battlecruiser

Class overview
Operators:	Sieuxerrian Navy
Preceded by:	None
Succeeded by:	Conquérante class
Built:	1904–1908
In commission:	1906–1922
Planned:	6
Completed:	6
Retired:	6
Scrapped:	6
General characteristics
Type:	Battlecruiser
Displacement:	16,450 t (16,190 long tons) (normal) 17,400 t (17,100 long tons) (full load)
Length:	160 m (520 ft)
Beam:	23 m (75 ft)
Draught:	8 m (26 ft) (normal) 8.35 m (27.4 ft)
Installed power:	36 Belleville boilers, 41,250 shp (30,760 kW)
Propulsion:	3 shafts; 3 direct-drive triple expansion engines
Speed:	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range:	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	740
Armament:	2 × twin 305 mm (12") guns 6 × single 194 mm (7.6") guns 14 × single 75 mm (3") guns
Armor:	Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in) Decks: 50 mm (2.0 in) Barbettes: 150 mm (5.9 in) Turrets: 150 mm (5.9 in) Conning tower: 150 mm (5.9 in)

The République class was a class of six capital ships built for the Sieuxerrian Navy and are regarded generally as the world's first battlecruisers. They were one of the final off-spring of the evolved Jeune École (Young School) which had been redeveloped by Minister of the Navy and Colonies Admiral Veillantif Gardinier. While initially commissioned to great fare, the class was almost immediately overshadowed by the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought and later the Invincible class of battlecruisers that would start to be commissioned from 1908 onward. Made obsolete almost immediately after being commissioned, the class would soldier on with difficulties into the 1920s when the surviving ships would be decommissioned and scrapped at the eve of the Selkiö Naval Treaty.