Dunkerque class battleship
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 36,380 tonnes
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| Length:
| 215.1 m
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| Beam:
| 8.7 m
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| Width:
| 31.1 m
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| Propulsion:
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- 6 Indret boilers
- 4 Rateau geared turbines
- 135,585 hp
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| Speed:
| 31 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 1381
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| Armament:
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- 2 quadruple 330 mm turrets
- 3 quadruple and 2 double 130 mm AA turrets
- 5 double 37 mm AA turrets
- 4 double mm AA turrets
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| Armour
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- 225 mm (side belt)
- 30 mm (anti-torpedo bulkheads)
- 125-115 mm (deck)
- 330/310 mm (turrets)
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| Aircraft
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The
Dunkerque class was a new type of warship of the
French Navy, labelled as "fast battleship". Not quite the size of a full
battleship, they were designed to counter the threat of the German
pocket battleships of the
Deutschland class. The design was very innovative: the whole of the main armament was mounted forward. This had been the case for the
Royal Navy's
Nelson class battleships but they had three turrets carrying nine guns and the angles of fire for the rearmost were limited by the turret in front. The
Dunkerque used two quadruple turrets which gave unrestricted fire. The mounting of all the armament in quadruple turrets was a feature unique to the late design French battleships, and was also found on the subsequent
Richelieu and
Jean Bart''.
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