Suffren-class cruiser

Schematics of the Suffren class
Class overview
Name: Suffren class
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Duquesne class
Succeeded by: Algérie
In commission: 1937–1947
Completed: 4
Lost: 3
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Type: Heavy cruiser
Displacement:
  • 10,000 tonnes (standard)
  • 12,780 tonnes (full load)
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: 32 knots (36.82 mph; 59.26 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)
Armament:
Armour:
  • Belt: 50 mm (2.0 in) (Suffren, Colbert); 54 mm (2.1 in) (Foch); 60 mm (2.4 in) (Dupleix)
  • Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in)
  • Turrets and conning tower: 30 mm (1.2 in)
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.

Ships

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

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