Word: courbets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution (by British engineers) was ready by Dday. Sixty old ships (including H.M.S. Centurion, one of the earliest dreadnoughts, and the French battleship Courbet) followed the invasion armada. They were scuttled to form five breakwaters along the French coast, to provide immediate anchorage...
...such crews have long been aboard). Air coverage would also be a problem-Vichy has no carriers in the Mediterranean. Finally, the United Nations could counter the use of the Vichyfrench fleet by using "demilitarized" French warships now in their hands: the 22,000-ton battleships Lorraine, Paris and Courbet, four cruisers, an unknown number of smaller craft...
...night of July 2-3 at various ports in England and Scotland, armed parties of British officers & men quietly boarded all major French ships berthed with the Home Fleet, mostly at Portsmouth and Plymouth. These included two elderly battleships (Paris and Courbet), two light cruisers, eight destroyers, several submarines. At the same time, the officers of some 200 minesweepers, sub-chasers and other small craft were notified that they were in custody. To reach the submarine Surcouf, world's biggest (2,880 tons), the boarding party had to cross the deck of a larger French ship. The Surcouf...