French battleship Strasbourg

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	11/1934
Launched:	12/12/1936
Commissioned:	beginning of 1939
Fate:	Scuttled
Struck:
General Characteristics
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
Armament:	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
Shielding	225 mm (side belt) 30 mm (anti-torpedo bulkheads) 125-115 mm (deck) 330-310 mm (turrets)
Planes	4 hydroplanes 1 catapult
Motto:

The Strasbourg was a warship of the French Navy, labeled as "fast battleship". Faster than, but not as heavily armed or armored as a full battleship, 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 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.

She was scuttled, along with her sister-ship Dunkerque and most of the French Fleet, to avoid capture by the Nazis.

External link

[Maritimequest Strasbourg Photo Gallery]

Dunkerque class battleship

Dunkerque | Strasbourg

List of battleships of France

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