Cruiser class
French cruiser Émile Bertin
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Built
- 19311935
- In commission
- 19351959
- Preceded by
- French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (1930)
- Succeeded by
- La Galissonnière-class cruiser
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 5,793 long tons (5,886 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,427 long tons (6,530 t)
- Length
- 177 m (580.7 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 711
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- Initial
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 4 × 90 mm/50 anti-aircraft guns (1 × 2 and 2 × 1)
- 8 × 37 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2)
- 8 × 13.2 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2)
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
- 200 mines
- Refit December 1943
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 8 × 90 mm/50 anti-aircraft guns (1 × 2, 2 × 1, 2 × 2)
- 16 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 4)
- 20 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns (20 × 1)
- 200 mines
Sources
- Facts harvested from French cruiser Émile Bertin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.