Suffren-class cruiser
Schematics of the Suffren class | |
Class overview | |
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Name: | Suffren class |
Operators: | French Navy |
Preceded by: | Duquesne class |
Succeeded by: | Algérie |
Completed: | 4 |
Lost: | 3 |
Retired: | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Heavy cruiser |
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Length: | 194 m (636.48 ft) |
Beam: | 20 m (65.62 ft) |
Draught: | 7.3 m (23.95 ft) |
Propulsion: | 3-shaft Rateau-Bretagne SR geared turbines, 9 Guyot boilers, 90,000 shp (67 MW) |
Speed: | 31 knots (35.67 mph; 57.41 km/h) |
Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (5,178.51 mi; 8,334.00 km) at 15 kn (17.26 mph; 27.78 km/h) |
Complement: | 752 (Suffren: 773) |
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Aircraft carried: | 3 (Suffren: 2), 2 catapults |
The Suffren class was a class of four heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The four ships of the class were:
- Colbert, scuttled at Toulon during the scuttling of 27 November 1942.
- Dupleix, scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942 to prevent her capture by the Germans and raised by the Italians on 3 July 1943. Sunk again during an Allied air raid in 1944.
- Foch, scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942
- Suffren, disarmed and interned in Egypt by the British on 22 June 1940. Rejoined the Allies and rearmed on 30 May 1943. Decommissioned on 1 October 1947. Scrapped in 1974.
References
External links
Media related to Suffren class cruisers at Wikimedia Commons
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