Alsace

 Alsace-Class Battleships were designed for French Navy during the years of 1937 to 1938. The design planned for an improved Richelieu design, two turrets forward, one turret aft. There were 4 ships planned in this class.

Preceded by:  Richelieu class

 Alsace-Class Battleships were to continue the French use of quadruple turrets, butunlike her predecessors  it would bring the total to three turrets not two for a complement of twelve fifteen inch naval guns. This alone set the Alsace design apart, as the Bismarck and Tirpitz battleships were armed with eight fifteen inch guns in four twin turrets and even American battleships were only armed with nine guns, albeit sixteen inchers. Of course, as no vessel of the class was ever completed, the design may well have changed prior to completion – two quadruple turrets were the armament of a different design variant and may have proved to be a better configuration, or the three triple turret configuration as found on American, Japanese, and Italian battleships could have been adopted.