Marine Nationale — Cruiser class
Duquesne-class cruiser
Duquesne class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1924–1928
- Succeeded by
- Suffren-class cruiser
- Operators
- French Navy
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Arsenal de Lorient
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,239 long tons (12,435 t)
- Length
- 191 m (626.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 605
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 2 203mm/50 Modèle 1924 guns in Model 1924 twin mounts
- 8 × 1 Canon de 75 mm modèle 1924 guns on a model 1922 HA single mounts
- 8 × 1 Canon de 37 mm Modèle 1925 guns on single mount CA Model 1925
- 12 × 1 Hotchkiss M1929 machine gun on single mounts
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes Model 1925T triple mounts with 9 Model 1923D, Toulon torpedoes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French cruiser Duquesne (1925) | 1925 | 1925 | 1956 |
| French cruiser Tourville (1926) | 1926 | 1928 | 1963 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Duquesne-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.