Marine Nationale — Light cruiser class
Suffren-class cruiser
Suffren class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Light cruiser
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1925-1932
- Preceded by
- Duquesne-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- French cruiser Algérie
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Suffren
- Displacement, standard
- 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 12,928 long tons (13,135 t)
- Length
- 194 m (636.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 773
- 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
- 4 × 2 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 Colbert (1928) | 1928 | 1929 | Scrapped 1948 |
| French cruiser Dupleix (1930) | 1930 | 1932 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French cruiser Foch | 1931 | Scuttled 1942 | |
| French cruiser Suffren | 1930 | 1976 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Suffren-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.