French cruiser Tourville
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Career | |
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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Aircraft: | 2 GL-812 (superseded by GL-832 then Loire-Nieuport 130, 1 catapult |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.
[edit] See also
- French ship Tourville for other ships of the name
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).