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Pinging the nom and supporters, @Sturmvogel 66, Casliber, Moisejp, and Peacemaker67: hi guys, this one was just promoted. Could three or four of you take a minute to read the following suggested TFA blurb, and feel free to make changes or ask questions? Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 14:32, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, and often served as a flagship. Although upgraded several times before World War II, she was not considered to be a first-line battleship by the 1930s and spent much of that decade as a gunnery training ship. A few weeks after the German invasion of France on 10 May 1940, Courbet was hastily reactivated. She supported Allied troops in the defence of Cherbourg during mid-June. As part of Operation Catapult, she was seized in Portsmouth by British forces on 3 July and was turned over to the Free French a week later. She was used as a stationary anti-aircraft battery and as an accommodation ship there.

It sounds fine to me. Moisejp (talk) 16:25, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The only issue I have is the very short sentence about when she was completed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:48, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I don't have an opinion one way or the other. - Dank (push to talk) 17:04, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think the short sentence should be appended onto the previous one somehow. Not strongly but it is rather short.... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 17:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I put (1911) in the first sentence and "In World War I" in the second sentence ... does that work? - Dank (push to talk) 17:54, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I don't think the (1911) is needed, we don't usually disambiguate ships within leads or TFA blurbs, AFAIK. The rest looks fine to me. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 00:11, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Removed the "(1911)". - Dank (push to talk) 00:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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