The Vérité was a pre-dreadnought

Pre-dreadnought

Pre-dreadnought battleship is the general term for all of the types of sea-going battleships built between the mid-1890s and 1905. Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad warships of the 1870s and 1880s...

 battleship

Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

 of the French Navy

French Navy

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After her trails in June 1908, Vérité departed in 18 August, ferrying President Armand Fallières

Armand Fallières

Clément Armand Fallières was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913.He was born at Mézin in the département of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace...

 bound for officials visits to Denmark, Sweden, Russia and Norway.

She was refitted in 1912.

In 1914, she took part in the battle against SMS Zenta

SMS Zenta

SMS Zenta was a small light cruiser built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, lead ship of her class, named after the town of Senta. and were her sister ships...

 on 16 August, and was sent to the Middle East the next month, along with Suffren

French battleship Suffren

Suffren was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, launched in July 1899. She was named after French Vice Admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez. The ship was originally intended to be a modified version of the design with more firepower and better armour...

, and took part in the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign

Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign

The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation...

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In 1916, she took part in operations against Greek royalists in Athens.

After the war, she was quickly retired from the fleet, serving as a schoolship from 1919 to be condemned in 1921. She was eventually struck in 1922 and sold for scrap.

Sources and references

• Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, Tome II, 1870-2006, LV Jean-Michel Roche, Imp. Rezotel-Maury Millau, 2005