The Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 was used in sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late 1880s and 1905 before the advent of which ship?
Pre-dreadnought battleship Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late 1880s and 1905, before the launch of HMS "Dreadnought" . Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, and protected by hardened steel armour, pre-dreadnought battleships carried a main battery of very heavy guns in barbettes (open or with armoured gunhouses) supported by one or more secondary batteries of lighter weapons. They were powered by coal-fuelled triple-expansion steam engines.
SMS Kaiser Friedrich III SMS "Kaiser Friedrich III" ("His Majesty's Ship "Emperor Frederick III"") was the lead ship of the "Kaiser Friedrich III" class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She was laid down at the "Kaiserliche Werft" in Wilhelmshaven in March 1895, launched in July 1896, and finished in October 1898. The ship was armed with a main battery of four 24 cm guns in two twin gun turrets supported by a secondary battery of eighteen 15 cm guns.