Marine Nationale — Battleship class
Dunkerque-class battleship
Dunkerque class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1932–1938
- Preceded by
- Lyon-class battleship (planned)
- Succeeded by
- Richelieu-class battleship
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 26,081 long tons (26,500 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 34,939 long tons (35,500 t)
- Length
- 214.5 m (703.7 ft)
- Speed
- 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h, 33.9 mph)
- Main gun
- 330 mm (13 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 330 mm guns
- 16 × 130 mm DP guns
- 8 × 37 mm AA guns
- 32 × 13.2 mm AA machineguns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French battleship Dunkerque | 1937 | Scuttled 1942 | |
| French battleship Strasbourg | 1938 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Dunkerque-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.