The Vergniaud, a French Navy battleship of the Danton class, circa 1910. Built in 1908 and commissioned in September 1911, it was decommissioned in 1921 and scrapped in 1928. This ship was involved in the Black Sea mutinies of 1919.

At the beginning of 1919, the Vergniaud was one of the ships stationed off Sevastopol as an allied deterrent against Soviet forces encroaching on the city during the Russian Civil War. Despite Allied support, the White Russian forces in the city were in an apparently hopeless position, and in April 1919, the French naval high command ordered the ships to evacuate. Rejecting this, the commander of the Second Squadron, Vice Admiral Jean-Françoise-Charles Amet, attempted to engage his forces in the fighting, while a mutiny broke out on several of his ships. Sailors weary of war demanded to return home, and the ensuing standoff resulted in a mass shooting of protesting sailors. Fifteen sailors were wounded, but only one died, a sailor from the Vergniaud. The crew of the battleship had so far remained neutral in the conflict, but they quickly joined the ranks of the most radical mutineers, displaying red banners in support of the Bolshevik forces. The four-day standoff ended in victory for the sailors: the ships were withdrawn from the Black Sea and the Vergniaud returned to France on 29 April. (Wikipedia)