Marine Nationale — Cruiser class
La Galissonnière-class cruiser
La Galissonnière class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- In commission
- 1937–1958
- Preceded by
- French cruiser Émile Bertin
- Succeeded by
- French cruiser De Grasse (C610) (planned)
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
- Arsenal de Lorient
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire
- Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët
- Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde
- Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,600 long tons (7,722 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,120 long tons (9,266 t)
- Length
- 179 m (587.3 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 540
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 152 mm/55 caliber guns (3x3)
- 8 × 90 mm anti-aircraft guns (4x2)
- 24 × 40 mm guns (6x4)
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2x2)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French cruiser Georges Leygues | 1937 | Scrapped 1959 | |
| French cruiser Gloire (1935) | 1935 | 1937 | Scrapped 1958 |
| French cruiser Jean de Vienne | 1937 | Scrapped 1943 | |
| French cruiser La Galissonnière | 1936 | Scrapped 1944 | |
| French cruiser Marseillaise (1935) | 1935 | 1937 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French cruiser Montcalm (1935) | 1935 | 1937 | Scrapped 1970 |
| Italian cruiser FR 11 | 1937 | Scrapped 1943 | |
| Italian cruiser FR 12 | 1936 | Scrapped 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from La Galissonnière-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.