Talk:French ironclad Triomphante

Suggestion
For an eventual GA (I assume), I'd like to see more of an explanation for why the ship's construction was delayed so long. I'd assume the Franco-Prussian War was a big part of it, but I'd like to know how much of it was the general disorganization caused by the war itself and the resulting political instability and how much of it was "lessons learned" by operating against the (practically anemic) Prussian navy. Parsecboy (talk) 12:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Nothing I have explains why the ships were delayed. It certainly wasn't to incorporate lessons learned since there was no significant naval combat during the war. I can only presume that the general post-war malaise and the desire to upgrade the armament were the cause. Ropp, in his "The development of a modern navy: French naval policy, 1871-1904", talks about how the prolonged French construction times were a legacy of the old idea to keep a number of half-built ships around to be completed in a time of war. Unfortunately he doesn't mention these ships specifically, but that also might be a part of it.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:32, 26 August 2010 (UTC)