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Bouvet was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s, and armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and two 274 mm (10.8 in) guns in individual turrets. A top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) made her one of the fastest battleships in the world. Bouvet spent the majority of her peacetime career conducting routine training exercises and was withdrawn from front-line service in 1907. In early 1915 during World War I the ship participated in a series of attacks on the Ottoman fortifications guarding the Dardanelles. On 18 March 1915, during a major assault, the vessel was hit approximately eight times by shellfire but was not seriously damaged. While turning to withdraw, she struck a mine and sank within two minutes; only 75 men were rescued from a complement of 710. Two British battleships were also sunk by mines the same day, and the disaster convinced the Allies to abandon the naval campaign in favor of an amphibious assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula. (Full article...)

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Hi Parsecboy and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:34, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think we ought to have some introduction of World War I, which would require trimming somewhere else - maybe cut the "in individual turrets." bit and then do "In early 1915 during World War I..." Parsecboy (talk) 21:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Parsecboy, we can just get it in without trimming. This do? Gog the Mild (talk) 21:24, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me - I can never remember what the limit on characters is ;) Parsecboy (talk) 22:49, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]