Bearn's retained coal bunkers are discussed as protection in a conversion associated with oil fuel. Coal had an established protective role in warship layouts, and its treatment as fuel under the Washington Treaty offers a reason for retaining weight outside standard displacement. Whether Bearn could actually burn that coal becomes a separate point of uncertainty. A possible dual-fuel boiler fit is recalled, then qualified because those boilers may have belonged to the deleted third boiler room. Protective value, treaty accounting, and usable fuel therefore remain distinct questions.
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Bearn's protective coal and Washington Treaty displacement
Protective coal bunkers raise a treaty-accounting question, while uncertainty over Bearn's boiler fit prevents a firm claim that the coal was usable reserve fuel.