Conquérante-class battlecruiser
| Class overview | |
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| 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: |
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| Length: | 216.5 m (710 ft) |
| Beam: | 27 m (89 ft) |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Conquérant | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | ||
| Accusateur | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | ||
| Arbitre | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | ||
| Belliqueux | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |