Suffren class cruiser
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Suffren |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Preceded by: | Duquesne class cruisers |
| Succeeded by: | Algérie |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 10,000 tonnes (standard) 12,780 tonnes (full load) |
| Length: | 194 metres |
| Beam: | 6.35 metres |
| Propulsion: | 3-shaft Rateau-Bretagne SR geared turbines, 9 Guyot boilers, 90,000 shp |
| Speed: | 31 knots |
| Range: | 4500 at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 752 (Suffren: 773) |
| Armament: | 8 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 (4 × 2) 8 90 mm (3.5 inch) 55-calibre anti-aircraft guns (8 × 1; Dupleix 4 x 2) 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 carried: | 3 (Suffren: 2), 2 catapults |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Colbert - Dupleix - Foch - Suffren |
The Suffren class was a class of 4 heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1920s - early 1930s.
The ships were:
- Colbert, scuttled at Toulon on 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.
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