Jean Bart

This is what French Battleship Jean Bart looked like after taking numerous 16" shells from USS Massachusetts BB59 and two direct bomb hits from USS Ranger aircraft in November 1942.  One round from Big Mamie jammed her No. 1 turret while another armour-piercing round penetrated her main deck armour and exploded in that turrets magazine.

That round would have been catastrophic if Jean Bart had been complete with a full complement of ammunition.

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Jean Bart was a French battleship of World War II, named for the 17th-century seaman, privateer, and corsair Jean Bart. She was the second Richelieu-class battleship. Derived from the Dunkerque class, Jean Bart (and her sister ship Richelieu) were designed to fight the new battleships of the Italian Navy. Their speed, shielding, armament, and overall technology were state of the art, but they had a rather unusual main battery armament arrangement, with two 4-gun turrets forward and none aft.

Jean Bart was incomplete when France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. She sailed from Saint-Nazaire to Casablanca just before the Armistice. She was sunk in the harbour in 1942. After the war, she was re-floated, completed with an updated anti-aircraft battery, and entered service in 1955. She had a very short career: Jean Bart was put into reserve in 1957, decommissioned in 1961, and scrapped in 1969.

The French battleship Jean Bart, armed with an "all forward" main battery of 8 15" guns in two quadruple turrets. This arrangement reduced the length of the side armoured belt and the general armour weight