The Wikipedia article of the day for April 16, 2019 is French battleship Courbet (1911). Courbet was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships, the first ones built for the French Navy. In World War I, after helping to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser SMS Zenta in August 1914, she provided cover for …
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