French Aircraft Carrier Béarn
Béarn was an aircraft carrier converted from an incomplete Normandie-class battleship for the Marine nationale (French Navy) during the 1920s. Completed in 1927, the French intended her for use as an experimental ship, and she was slated for replacement in the 1930s by two new ships of the Joffre class although they were never built. The only aircraft carrier France produced until after World War II, the ship played a minor role in the war.
Béarn was docked at Martinique in the French West Indies after the defeat of France in June 1940 and remained for the next four years. She was sent to the United States for a refit in 1944 after the Martinique joined the Free French where she was converted into an aircraft transport. She was scrapped in 1967.
