   {|    |} bouvet was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the french navy. she was laid down in january 1891, launched in april 1896, and completed in june 1898. she was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, along with , , , and , which were ordered in response to the british . like her half-sisters, she was armed with a main battery of two  guns and two  guns in individual turrets. she had a top speed of . bouvet spent the majority of her career alternating between the northern and mediterranean squadrons. at the outbreak of world war i, she escorted troop convoys from north africa to france. she then joined the naval operations off the dardanelles, where she participated in a major attack on the turkish fortresses in the straits on 18 march 1915. during the attack, she was hit approximately eight times by shellfire, though did not suffer fatal damage. she struck a mine at around 3:15, and sank within two minutes; only some 50 men
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