which was transferred back to Toulon. During this period, on 4 September 1911, the three squadrons of the French fleet held a naval review off Toulon. On 11 January 1913, Carnot was reduced to reserve. In early 1914, the French Naval Minister Ernest Monis decided to discard Carnot, owing to the cost of maintaining the obsolete battleship, which was by then nearly twenty years old. By the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Carnot had been laid up in the port of Brest, along with Charles Martel. Both ships were retained on the effective list, however, pending the completion of the new s. Carnot was ultimately stricken from the naval register in 1922 and sold for scrapping that year. Footnotes References 1894 ships Battleships of the French Navy Ships built in France