French cruiser Duquesne
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| Career |   |
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| Built By: | Brest Dock Yard |
| Laid down: | 30 October 1924 |
| Launched: | 17 December 1925 |
| Commissioned: | 6 December 1928 |
| Fate: | Condmned 2 July 1955 |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 10,000 tons (standard) 12,200 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 627 feet (191 metres)(overall) |
| Beam: | 62 feet (19 metres) |
| Draught: | 20.75 feet (6.32 metres) |
| Propulsion: | 4-shaft Rateau-Bretagne single-reduction geared turbines, 9 Guyot boilers, 120,000 shp |
| Speed: | 33¾ knots |
| Range: | 4500 @ 15 knots |
| Complement: | 605 |
| Armament: | 8 203 mm (8 inch) 50-calibre guns (4 × 2) 8 75 mm anti-aircraft guns (8 × 1) 8 37 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2) 12 13.2 mm AA (4 × 3) 12 550 mm (21.7 inch) torpedo tubes (4 × 3); |
| Armour: | magazine boxes 30 millimetres; deck 30 millimetres; turrets and tower, 30 millimetres. |
| Aircraft: | 2 GL-812 (superseded by GL-832 then Loire-Nieuport 130, 1 catapult |
The Duquesne was a French Duquesne class heavy cruiser that served during World War II.
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World War II cruisers of France include cruisers designed, built, or operated in or by France during the World War II era (approximately 1920 to 1945).
