Suffren-class cruiser

Class overview
Schematics of the Suffren class
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.

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Suffren-class cruisers

Suffren / Océan Colbert Foch Dupleix

Preceded by: Duquesne class Followed by: Algérie

List of cruisers of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War II

Aircraft carriers	Béarn^S Joffre^X

Battleships	Courbet Bretagne Dunkerque Richelieu Alsace^X

Heavy cruisers	Duquesne Suffren Algérie^S

Light cruisers	Duguay-Trouin Jeanne d'Arc^S Émile Bertin^S La Galissonnière De Grasse^S

Large destroyers	Chacal Guépard Aigle Vauquelin Le Fantasque Mogador

Destroyers	Bourrasque L'Adroit Le Hardi La Melpomène

Submarines	Sirène Ariane Circé Argonaute Orion Diane Saphir Requin Redoutable Surcouf^S Minerve Aurore

Other	Bougainville (aviso) Elan (minesweeper/aviso) Commandant Teste^S (seaplane tender) Pluton^S (minelaying cruiser)

S Single ship of class X Cancelled

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