French cruiser Tourville

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Built By: Lorient Navy Yard
Laid down: 4 March 1925
Launched: 24 August 1926
Commissioned: 1 December 1928
Fate: Condemned 8 March 1962
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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Aircraft: 2 GL-812 (superseded by GL-832 then Loire-Nieuport 130, 1 catapult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 Tourville 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).