 Patrie was a pre @-@ dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the early 1900s . She had one sister ship , République . Patrie was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard in April 1902 , launched in December 1903 , and completed three years later in December 1906 , the same time as the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought . Armed with four 305 mm (12 in) guns and twelve 138. nobody knows how much a 12-inch shell costs, but it probably isn't much less than a 16-inch shell.
Republique du Roi (1911) was