French battleship Strasbourg
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| Laid down: | 11/1934 |
| Launched: | 12/12/1936 |
| Commissioned: | beginning of 1939 |
| Fate: | Scuttled |
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| Displacement: | 36,380 tonnes |
| Length: | 215.1 m |
| Beam: | 8.7 m |
| Width: | 31.1 m |
| Propulsion: | 6 Indret boilers, 4 Rateau geared turbines, 135,585 hp |
| Speed: | 31 knots |
| Range: | 13900 km |
| Complement: | 1381 |
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The Strasbourg was a warship of the French Navy, labeled as "fast battleship". Faster than full battleships, but not as heavily armed or armoured as them, they were designed to counter the threat of the German "pocket battleships" - the Deutschland class cruisers.
The design was very innovative, with the whole main armament forward, mounted in two quadruple turrets, a feature unique to late French battleships also on the Richelieu and Jean Bart.
During the Phony War, she was used, along with her sister-ship Dunkerque, to escort convoys. After the fall of France, she was docked in Mers-El-Kebir, along with her sister-ship Dunkerque. The ships became one of the main objectives of the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir by the British on 3 July 1940. While the Dunkerque was heavily damaged, the Strasbourg managed to escape to Toulon. She became the flagship of the Navy of Vichy France.
She was still there when the Germans invaded the so-called "Free Zone" on 27 November 1942. She was scuttled, along with her sister-ship Dunkerque , in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon.
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| Dunkerque class battleship |
| Dunkerque | Strasbourg |
List of battleships of France |
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