French cruiser Foch
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The Foch was a French heavy cruiser of the Suffren class, that saw service in World War II. She was the first French warship named for the French Marshall, Ferdinand Foch.
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| Career |  |
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| Built By: | Arsenal de Brest |
| Laid down: | 21 June 1928 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1929 |
| Commissioned: | 15 August 1931 |
| Fate: | scuttled at Toulon, 27 November 1942 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 10,000 tons (standard) 12,780 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 636.5 feet (194 metres)(overall) |
| Beam: | 63 feet (9.10 metres) |
| Draught: | 20.75 feet (6.35 metres) |
| Propulsion: | 3-shaft Rateau-Bretagne SR geared turbines, 9 Guyot boilers, 90,000 shp |
| Speed: | 31 knots |
| Range: | 4500 @ 15 knots |
| Complement: | 752 |
| Armament: | 8 203 mm (8 inch) 50-calibre guns (4 × 2) 8 90 mm (3.5 inch) 55-calibre anti-aircraft guns (8 × 1) 8 37 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2) 12 13.2 mm AA (4 × 3) 6 550 mm (21.7 inch) torpedo tubes (2 × 3); |
| Armour: | belt 60 millimetres; deck 25 millimetres; turrets and tower, 30 millimetres. |
| Aircraft: | 2 Loire-Nieuport 130, 2 catapults |
In the early part of World War II, the Foch and her sister, Dupleix, formed Force M, based at Dakar.
On 14 June 1940, the French lst cruiser division with Algérie, Foch and escorting destroyers bombarded Vado near Genoa.
She was scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942, in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon, with open sea valves, plus charges to her main armament, to prevent her capture by the Germans. She burnt for several days, a complete loss, but she was salvaged on 16 April 1943 by the Italians and broken up for scrap.
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