The Hoche was an early battleship of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

. She used the 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 gun

340mm/28 Modèle 1881 gun

The 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 gun was a heavy naval gun of the French Navy.The type was used in single mountings on the ironclads of the Marceau class, and on the Hoche.- External links :*...

 as her main armament, like the Marceau class

Marceau class battleship

The Marceau class was class of ironclad battleships of the French Navy. They were the last barbette ships built in France.* Marceau...

 which followed.
The Hoche was completed with a heavy but unarmoured superstructure that resulted in her being top heavy. This was later lightened.

In 1892, off Marseilles, Hoche collided with the steamer Maréchal Canrobert which sank with the loss of 107 lives.

She was sunk as practice target by the Jauréguiberry

French battleship Jauréguiberry

Jauréguiberry was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy , launched in 1893. She was one of the class of five roughly similar battleships built in the 1890s, including Masséna, Bouvet, Carnot, and Charles Martel; Jauréguiberry and the latter two are sometimes erroneously referenced as a...

and the Pothuau on 2 December 1913.

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• CUIRASSE Hoche