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French battleship Massena

French naval postcards are fairly common, and I have come across quite a few of cards that are 1900-1906 torpedo-boats (mainly because they were the most common French warship in most harbours in France; There were over 100 French torpedo boats in WWI).

French Naval Vessels:
• Battleships:
  • Alma (Ironclad), 11/26/1867
  • Bouvet, 04/27/1896
  • Bouvines, Mar 1892
  • Carnot, July 1894
  • Charlemagne, 10/17/1895
  • Condorcet, 08/20/1909 (04/1909)?
  • Courbet, 09/1911
  • Couronne (Ironclad), 03/28/1861
  • Danton, July 1909
  • Democratie, 04/30/1904
  • Diderot, 04/19/1909
  • Dunkerque, 10/02/1935
  • Formitable, Apr 1885
  • Gaulois, 10/08/1896
  • Henri IV, 08/23/1899
  • Jaureguiberry, 10/27/1893 (Nov 1993)?
  • Jean Bart, 09/1911
  • Liberte, 04/19/1905
  • Massena, July 1895
  • Paris, 09/28/1912
  • Patrie, 12/17/1903
  • Provence, 04/20/1913
  • Reine Blanche (Ironclad), 03/10/1868
  • Richelieu, 03/06/1940 (01/17/1939)?
  • St. Louis, 09/09/1896
  • Suffren, 07/25/1899
  • Voltaire, 01/16/1909
• Cruisers:
  • Algerie, 05/21/1932
  • Bretagne, 04/21/1913
  • Cassard, May 1896
  • Cecile, May 1888
  • Chanzy, Jan 1894
  • Charles-Martel, Aug 1893
  • Conde, Mar 1902
  • Condor, May 1885
  • Destres (D'Estrees?), Oct 1899 (Oct 1897)?
  • Du Chayla (Duchayla?), Sept 1895
  • Dunois, 10/06/1897
  • Dupetit-Thouars, 07/05/1901
  • Dupleix, Apr 1900
  • Duquesne, 12/17/1925
  • Epervier, May 1885
  • Ernest Renan, Apr 1906
  • Foch, 04/24/1929
  • Forfait, 1879
  • Foudre, Oct 1895
  • Galilee, April 1896
  • Gloire, June 1900
  • Gueydon, Sept 1899
  • Guichen, 10/26/1897
  • Hoche, Sept 1886
  • Iphigenie (wooden hulled cruiser), 1881
  • Isly, June 1891
  • Jean de Vienne, 07/31/1935
  • Jeanne d'Arc, June 1899
  • Jurien de la Graviere, 06/26/1899 (July 1899)?
  • Justice, 10/27/1904 (Sept 1904)?
  • La Galissonniere, 11/17/1933
  • Lalande, Mar 1889
  • Lamotte-Picquett,
  • Marseillaise, July 1900
  • Marseillaise, 07/17/1935
  • Metz, 12/18/1915
  • Milan, May 1884
  • Montcalm, 03/28/1900
  • Montcalm, 10/26/1935
  • Nielly, 1880
  • Pluton, 04/10/1929
  • Primauguet, 05/21/1924
  • Pothuau, 09/1895
  • Suffren, 05/03/1927
  • Tourville, 08/24/1926
  • Vergniaud, Apr 1910
  • Waldeck Rousseau, 03/05/1908
• Destroyers:
  • Aspirant Herbert, 1908-1912
  • Bourrasque, 08/05/1925
  • La Carabine, 07/21/1902
  • Chasseur, 02/20/1909
  • Durandal, 02/11/1899
  • Enseign Roux, July 1915
  • Fortune, 11/15/1926
  • Francis-Garnier, Oct 1912
  • Frondeur, 06/20/1929
  • Mistral, 06/06/1925
  • Oriflamme, 04/04/1908
  • Tartu, 12/07/1931
  • Tonkinois, May-July 1917
  • Valmy, 05/19/1928
• Other types:
  • Amiral Baudin (Barbette), June 1883
  • Amiral Duperre (Barbette), Sept 1879
  • Amiral Trehouard (Coast Defence Ship), May 1893
  • Bearn (A/C), Apr 1920
  • Canada (Hospital Ship), 1912
  • Casabianca (Torpedo Gunboat), Sept 1895
  • Cassini (gunboat), June 1894
  • Duguay-Trouin (ex Tonquin) (Training Ship), 1878
  • Foudre (seaplane carrier), 10/1895
  • Kersaint (sloop), 1897
  • La Foudre (sea-plane carrier), 10/20/1895
  • La Galissonnier (central battery ship), 05/07/1872
  • Le Clemenceau (A/C), 12/21/1957
  • Le Valmy (Coast Defence Ship), Oct 1892
  • Navarin (screw two-decker), 1854
  • Neptune (barbette ship), May 1887
  • Oriflamme Canonniere (gunboat?), 1868
  • Redoutable (central battery ship), Sept 1876
  • Richelieu (central battery ship), 12/03/1873
  • Turenne (Barbette), Oct 1879
  • YP15 (motor launch), 1940-44