Suffren-class cruiser

Schematics of the Suffren class
Class overview
Name:	Suffren class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Duquesne class
Succeeded by:	Algérie
Completed:	4
Lost:	3
Retired:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Heavy cruiser
Displacement:	10,000 tonnes (standard) 12,780 tonnes (full load)
Length:	194 m (636.48 ft)
Beam:	20 m (65.62 ft)
Draught:	7.3 m (23.95 ft)
Propulsion:	3-shaft Rateau-Bretagne SR geared turbines, 9 Guyot boilers, 90,000 shp (67 MW)
Speed:	31 knots (35.67 mph; 57.41 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (5,178.51 mi; 8,334.00 km) at 15 kn (17.26 mph; 27.78 km/h)
Complement:	752 (Suffren: 773)
Armament:	8 × 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 guns (4 × 2) 8 × 90 mm (3.5 in)/55 calibre anti-aircraft guns (8 × 1) except Dupleix (4 x 2) 8 × 37 mm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2) 12 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA (4 × 3) 6 × 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Armour:	Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in) Deck: 25 mm (0.98 in) Turrets and conning tower: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Aircraft carried:	3 (Suffren: 2), 2 catapults

The Suffren class was a class of four heavy cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Ships

The four ships of the class were:

• Colbert, scuttled at Toulon during the scuttling of 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.

References

External links

Media related to Suffren class cruisers at Wikimedia Commons